Author Patricia Watts debuts her new noir suspense novel, The Frayer. Quite intriguing and bizarre, The Frayer’s protagonist is a living building in Fairbanks named Big Blue that is plunged into a duel to the death with the Frayer who seduces Big Blue's tenants and threatens the existence of Big Blue itself. At this event, the challenges creating an inanimate object as the protagonist in a story, how the offbeat character of Fairbanks is woven into The Frayer, and how one’s own experience is mirrored in the story are themes addressed. Patricia Watts has lived in Alaska for more than two decades, raising her children and working as a journalist and a human-rights investigator. She is also the author of Watchdogs, also set in Fairbanks.