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Williamston Wildlife Rescue #1
Tennessee Rescue
Call of the wild
Game ranger Seth Logan’s peaceful life is thrown into chaos the second Emma French bangs on his door. The fiery blonde clearly doesn’t know the first thing about country living…or its dangers. She’s illegally fostering baby skunks—and worse, she has Seth aiding and abetting her!
Never one to turn his back on a woman or an animal, Seth agrees to break the rules to help Emma—but only until the skunks are old enough to return to the wild and Emma goes back to her life in Memphis. Yet as they care for the babies, Seth finds himself breaking another rule, one that he knows will only lead to heartbreak: never fall for a woman who doesn’t want to stay.
Game ranger Seth Logan’s peaceful life is thrown into chaos the second Emma French bangs on his door. The fiery blonde clearly doesn’t know the first thing about country living…or its dangers. She’s illegally fostering baby skunks—and worse, she has Seth aiding and abetting her!
Never one to turn his back on a woman or an animal, Seth agrees to break the rules to help Emma—but only until the skunks are old enough to return to the wild and Emma goes back to her life in Memphis. Yet as they care for the babies, Seth finds himself breaking another rule, one that he knows will only lead to heartbreak: never fall for a woman who doesn’t want to stay.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published May 8, 2018
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Carolyn McSparren
45 books13 followersCarolyn McSparren started writing when she was a teenager, and always planned to be a professional writer and a college professor. That is, until she fell madly in love, dropped out of graduate school, and became a wife supporting a burgeoning opera singer husband. That led to a three-month trip to Germany that stretched into five years.
She wound up living in Germany, France, Italy, and came home with a different husband and a 14-year-old stepdaughter. The writing got put on the back burner while she produced a daughter of her own and went back to graduate school at the University of Memphis to finish her Master’s degree in English. At that point she discovered that a graduate degree in English wouldn’t buy a cup of coffee in a diner.
She became a program coordinator at the executive center of the University of Memphis, where she designed management training, wrote brochures and press releases, designed and laid out brochures, and did everything from pour coffee to transport dignitaries.
On the home front, she and her family moved to the country to breed and train hunter-jumper horses. About the time they moved, her daughter decided she preferred a social life to cleaning out the barn and left Carolyn with the whole operation. With 18 horses, a full-time job, a husband and family, four cats, and three dogs, there wasn’t much time left for writing.
Finally, Martha Shields, who is now a Silhouette author, dragged Carolyn to the meeting of the River City Romance Writers, and thence into a critique group. Suddenly the time seemed right to get on with what she’d longed to do all her life.
That fall, Carolyn won a Maggie Award for an unpublished manuscript (which has still not been published, by the way), and three years later she took early retirement from the university to write full-time. By that time, only three horses remained — none of which Carolyn had ridden for much too long.
The day that Harlequin called with an offer to buy The Only Child, the editor said, "We want the book but... " Guess which were the only words Carolyn heard? She didn’t even tell her best friend about the offer for three weeks.
Now, with seven Harlequin Superromances under her belt, and another couple in the works, she’s finally living in what southerners call "hog heaven." She rides horses, writes books, works with the local chapter of RWA and with Sisters in Crime, is a member of Mystery Writers of America, and just so that she’ll stay balanced, is a member of the Delta Dressage Association—the local horse training group.
She loves speaking to aspiring writers and adores book signings. Finally, years after she first wanted to be a writer, she’s managed to achieve her goal. Now, if she can just manage to stay on her horse, everything should be great.
She wound up living in Germany, France, Italy, and came home with a different husband and a 14-year-old stepdaughter. The writing got put on the back burner while she produced a daughter of her own and went back to graduate school at the University of Memphis to finish her Master’s degree in English. At that point she discovered that a graduate degree in English wouldn’t buy a cup of coffee in a diner.
She became a program coordinator at the executive center of the University of Memphis, where she designed management training, wrote brochures and press releases, designed and laid out brochures, and did everything from pour coffee to transport dignitaries.
On the home front, she and her family moved to the country to breed and train hunter-jumper horses. About the time they moved, her daughter decided she preferred a social life to cleaning out the barn and left Carolyn with the whole operation. With 18 horses, a full-time job, a husband and family, four cats, and three dogs, there wasn’t much time left for writing.
Finally, Martha Shields, who is now a Silhouette author, dragged Carolyn to the meeting of the River City Romance Writers, and thence into a critique group. Suddenly the time seemed right to get on with what she’d longed to do all her life.
That fall, Carolyn won a Maggie Award for an unpublished manuscript (which has still not been published, by the way), and three years later she took early retirement from the university to write full-time. By that time, only three horses remained — none of which Carolyn had ridden for much too long.
The day that Harlequin called with an offer to buy The Only Child, the editor said, "We want the book but... " Guess which were the only words Carolyn heard? She didn’t even tell her best friend about the offer for three weeks.
Now, with seven Harlequin Superromances under her belt, and another couple in the works, she’s finally living in what southerners call "hog heaven." She rides horses, writes books, works with the local chapter of RWA and with Sisters in Crime, is a member of Mystery Writers of America, and just so that she’ll stay balanced, is a member of the Delta Dressage Association—the local horse training group.
She loves speaking to aspiring writers and adores book signings. Finally, years after she first wanted to be a writer, she’s managed to achieve her goal. Now, if she can just manage to stay on her horse, everything should be great.
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August 21, 2018
This book might have been a solid 3, maybe even a 4 until I got to the end. Without giving away the ending, all I'll say is you can't have the major conflict between the hero and heroine, the thing that threatens the HEA, happen 5 pages from the end of the book and have it wrapped up in one page.
My main beef with this book, ending notwithstanding, is Emma. She's all over the place as far as characterization goes. In the first scene where she meets Seth, she's all like 'get these nasty things out of my house' followed by 'no, you can't do that I'll keep them' in the space of about two breaths. And then she's a city slicker completely out of place in the country, but after less than a week she's speaking and acting like a local, complete with slang and mannerisms and local history? Completely unrealistic.
Once again, I have to comment on word choices in parts of the book. Don't use big words just to make yourself look erudite... In actuality, it just looks like on the day you wrote the passage you found a word on your word of the day calendar and had to include it in the book (or were bored and started reading your thesaurus). If there's a simpler word, use it. Your readers will thank you. (Who uses post-prandial in everyday talk? Just say, 'after lunch' for Pete's sake...)
My main beef with this book, ending notwithstanding, is Emma. She's all over the place as far as characterization goes. In the first scene where she meets Seth, she's all like 'get these nasty things out of my house' followed by 'no, you can't do that I'll keep them' in the space of about two breaths. And then she's a city slicker completely out of place in the country, but after less than a week she's speaking and acting like a local, complete with slang and mannerisms and local history? Completely unrealistic.
Once again, I have to comment on word choices in parts of the book. Don't use big words just to make yourself look erudite... In actuality, it just looks like on the day you wrote the passage you found a word on your word of the day calendar and had to include it in the book (or were bored and started reading your thesaurus). If there's a simpler word, use it. Your readers will thank you. (Who uses post-prandial in everyday talk? Just say, 'after lunch' for Pete's sake...)
May 18, 2018
One of the Williamston Wildlife Rescue series, this tale introduces us to wildlife ranger Seth Logan and to the woman who moves into her late aunt's house, which happens to be next door to Seth's home. Emma French is there to take a break from the job where she was (unfairly) fired practically simultaneously with her discovery that her fiance has been cheating on her. Which causes her to dump him. Her father doesn't approve, is certain she should just come home to lick her wounds. But Emma is intent on following her own rules.
In doing so, however, she discovers a trio of baby skunks have also moved into to her aunt's house. They are too small to be set free in the wild, and when she asks help from Seth, he tells her she's breaking the rules if she fosters them, which is her intent. But this is the first of several rules that Emma breaks, dragging Seth along with her when he breaks his own rule about getting close to a city girl who could not possibly be happy with a country boy like him. I mean, isn't that why his first wife left him?
How these characters and several others whose quirks are endearing manage their lives pulled me in and refused to let go from page 1 to the last one. A delight to read and imagine what I would have done under similar circumstances.
In doing so, however, she discovers a trio of baby skunks have also moved into to her aunt's house. They are too small to be set free in the wild, and when she asks help from Seth, he tells her she's breaking the rules if she fosters them, which is her intent. But this is the first of several rules that Emma breaks, dragging Seth along with her when he breaks his own rule about getting close to a city girl who could not possibly be happy with a country boy like him. I mean, isn't that why his first wife left him?
How these characters and several others whose quirks are endearing manage their lives pulled me in and refused to let go from page 1 to the last one. A delight to read and imagine what I would have done under similar circumstances.
January 20, 2021
lost interest part of the way. didn't like Emma all that much. definitely found the skunks to be cute though. ending rushed
I actually lost interest in the story part way through. I am sorry but Emma isn't the likeable, not with her attitude. I am not sure how romance between Emma and Seth blossomed when they are like opposites, but of course a cliched story of how opposites attract how can you possibly go wrong. Plus I found the ending to be rather rushed.
Only redeeming thing was that the skunks are so darn cute and I really want to pet one (baby skunk not an adult skunk who will give me a stink bomb).
I actually lost interest in the story part way through. I am sorry but Emma isn't the likeable, not with her attitude. I am not sure how romance between Emma and Seth blossomed when they are like opposites, but of course a cliched story of how opposites attract how can you possibly go wrong. Plus I found the ending to be rather rushed.
Only redeeming thing was that the skunks are so darn cute and I really want to pet one (baby skunk not an adult skunk who will give me a stink bomb).
September 12, 2019
3 Stars for the 3 baby skunks. I thought this started good but as it got further into the book, I started to lose interest. I think the babies stole the show.
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