In the second book of the popular Watershed series we meet Laura Menard. She is a college professor of fish biology, a licensed fishing guide, and an EMT for a Wisconsin Search and Rescue team, and has returned to the remote community of Towne, located in a secluded Rocky Mountain watershed surrounded by snow capped mountains. Newly widowed, Laura has no idea what to expect upon her unannounced arrival. Some of her old friends have passed away or moved on, but Laura is soon reunited with Ted Miller, her friend and a ranger with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. She'll also become involved with the FBI team of Skye Coulter and Phil Newberry, and undercover border agent Milo Damon. Longing for the tranquility of mountain life and the people who live there, Laura has returned to the valley to find inner peace and healing, but she soon finds herself trapped by the flames of a raging forest fire, and later she gets caught up in a bear bile poaching operation. And while she learns that even in a small mountain community, you can't escape greed, to even murder, she also finds that home is where the heart is. Return to Rocky Mountain Watershed is an expressive, humorous, and heartwarming novel that celebrates the joys and tribulations of small-town life and the majesty of the Rocky Mountains.
In a secluded Rocky Mountain watershed, gathering rivulets of melting ice form from snow-capped peaks. They launch slowly down headwater creeks, meander through plush beaver meadows, and catapult between deep canyon walls, slowed only momentarily by a large reservoir. They then race through the white-water rapids of Devils Gulp and eventually intersect Towne, a remote mountain community. Within this community lives a host of people with a variety of successes, failures, loves, ambitions, obsessions, hopes, and fears. Theres Laura Menard, who left Wisconsin looking for a job but finds only fishing. When her car breaks down near Maggies Corner, Laura discovers that people do care. Theres former Wall Street broker Richard Whendelstat, who gave up the fast pace of life to open the Flies and Lies fishing resort. And then theres Bradley Hawkins, who came to the area on a fishing trip and never left; his wife now wants a divorce. With wry humor, joy for life, and an immense appreciation of the mountains and small-town living, Rocky Mountain Watershed narrates the stories of these characters, who face personal decisions that will change their lives and those around themas well as affecting the common thread that binds them all, the river.
When Laura Menard, a transplanted college professor from the Midwest, finds herself working with Ted Miller, a back country ranger for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she does not expect to be caught in the crossfire between two ruthless drug cartels fighting for control of the Whoosh Watershed-nor does she expect to fall in love... But the conflict is real, escalating to the point where a private jet, full of heroin, is brought down by a well-placed bomb, and the lone survivor of the plane crash, a beautiful young woman, is rescued by a retired Army K-9 veteran and his orphaned wolf pup. Ted and Laura join forces with the FBI to combat the flow of drugs into their beloved Watershed, and when Ted Miller is offered a game warden's job in Northern Wisconsin, he asks Laura to marry him and return to the Midwest. Laura-torn between her love of Ted and her love of the Rockies-must make a difficult decision, a decision complicated by the return of a former lover. Rocky Mountain Watershed Sanctuary is packed with adventure, romance, and pulse-pounding excitement-and written with humor and a deep respect for the people and animals who inhabit the small mountain communities of the Rocky Mountain Watershed.
Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln is a work of historical fiction chronicling the strong, albeit unequal, friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley, her black seamstress. The backdrop to their relationship, the White House, has never been livelier with pot parties, séances gone bad, receptions for little people, and cross-dressing actors. Elizabeth Keckley was a remarkable woman for any era. It seems a fabrication that a slave, working with only a needle and thread, could amass $1,200 and buy freedom for both her and her son. But her story is singular and true. Mary Todd Lincoln slowly crumbles under the emotional strain caused by the death of one son, the assassination of her husband, and a knee-buckling debt-load brought about by her compulsive spending. Elizabeth provides emotional ballast as Mary spirals from mercurial antics into full-blown madness. The novel is mostly faithful to the events and timelines of the Lincoln presidency, the notable exception being the events surrounding the death of Mr. Lincoln. After Andrew Johnson is sworn in as the new president, Lincoln's salary ceases and Mary faces destitution. Elizabeth alone has the solution.
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