Sometimes the journey of life takes a few strange turns.
Meg Jennings used to be a reporter, but now she's a fugitive hiding out at a lakefront rental in the small town of Alpine Grove, waiting for the heat to die down.
Meg shares the house with Riley O'Shea, who may or may not be her stepbrother, and his dog, Zelda. When Meg is zapped by a woman with a stun gun and thrown into a van, everything changes. Although getting to Alpine Grove was complicated, getting out might be worse.
Faced with difficult choices, Meg and Riley end up on a journey to find a mysterious retreat located somewhere in the Northwest. The trip takes them from tiny hamlets to big cities where they encounter everything from digestively challenged buzzards to tone-deaf musicians dressed like Klingons having a fashion disaster.
Susan Daffron is the author of the Alpine Grove Romantic Comedies and a number of award-winning nonfiction books, including several about pet care and animal rescue. She lives in a small town in northern Idaho and shares her life with her husband and two very furry dogs.
When she's not writing novels, Susan works as the president of Logical Expressions, Inc. You can read more about her at her website SusanDaffron.com.
Susan was the President and Founder of the National Association of Pet Rescue Professionals (NAPRP) and the president of the Small Publishers Artists and Writers Network.
Meg, Riley (two misfits with sudden, peculiar and unexplainable senses) plus a very cool Samoyed dog named Zelda go on a cross country adventure looking for their missing parents. The characters are relatable with humor, romance and mystery. I'm looking forward to book #3 in this entertaining trilogy.
I think I would have like the book better had Meg acted like a 33 yr old woman instead of a 16 yr old girl. Shame because I did like the rest of the book (eventhough it doesn't really make all that much sense), but her attitude just overshadowed it.