Book One in the Alaskan Series

From the book jacket: 

"Jake MacDonald had lived almost his entire life in a remote cabin in the Alaska sub-arctic. He was home schooled by his mother, a former music teacher. From his father, he learned to hunt, fish and trap - and everything else a man needs to know to live a subsistence lifestyle. But his mother insisted that he finish his education at a real high school in a real town. 

So at seventeen, Jake heads for the interior city of Fairbanks. Jake knows how to field dress a fifteen-hundred pound moose. He knows how to run a shallow river in a jet boat and set a gill net for salmon. But navigating the challenges of his senior year at an overcrowded, two thousand student high school? He hadn't a clue. Fortunately, ten minutes into his first day Jake meets Julie Peters, a pretty girl whose maturity and intelligence is every bit a match for his. They're both eager to learn everything about each other's world. 

But there's one thing, one terrible secret about Jake that no one - not even Julie - can ever know." 

Paperback.  295 pages.