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Turning Over a New Leaf
When two men clash over an alder slated to be cut down, the tree won't be the only thing at risk of falling.
Logan Cook has logged for most of his adult life. It’s a dangerous, hard job, and a devastating landslide accident at the end of last season has got Logan and what’s left of his old crew on edge. He doesn’t blame them. He’d rather not think about that day either. Logan just wants everything to go smoothly this year. He’s got a quota to meet and a group of new, inexperienced loggers to wrangle. The last thing he needs is the band of hippies camping out in a tree on his company’s land. He’s sick of being delayed and the effect it’s having on his team’s already low morale, but Logan’s got a plan to drive the next one out.
Miles Turner has spent the last six years in academia, working on his Environmental Geography PhD. When a summer job offer comes up that gets him out from behind the computer and into the Washington forest, he jumps at the opportunity. Planting trees in areas that have been clear-cut by the lumber industry makes Miles feel like he’s making a real difference. But the head of his University’s environmental advocacy group has a different cause in mind once they get up there—protecting the old growth in the forest from being logged any further—and when he asks Miles to help him, how can Miles say no?
It’s only living up in a tree for a week; how hard can it be?
Logan Cook has logged for most of his adult life. It’s a dangerous, hard job, and a devastating landslide accident at the end of last season has got Logan and what’s left of his old crew on edge. He doesn’t blame them. He’d rather not think about that day either. Logan just wants everything to go smoothly this year. He’s got a quota to meet and a group of new, inexperienced loggers to wrangle. The last thing he needs is the band of hippies camping out in a tree on his company’s land. He’s sick of being delayed and the effect it’s having on his team’s already low morale, but Logan’s got a plan to drive the next one out.
Miles Turner has spent the last six years in academia, working on his Environmental Geography PhD. When a summer job offer comes up that gets him out from behind the computer and into the Washington forest, he jumps at the opportunity. Planting trees in areas that have been clear-cut by the lumber industry makes Miles feel like he’s making a real difference. But the head of his University’s environmental advocacy group has a different cause in mind once they get up there—protecting the old growth in the forest from being logged any further—and when he asks Miles to help him, how can Miles say no?
It’s only living up in a tree for a week; how hard can it be?
105 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 16, 2019
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Kat Cassidy
9 books41 followersKat Cassidy is a romance novelist. She’s a dreamer, a schemer and, above all else, a believer in true love. She lives in Canada with her husband, her kids, and her lovable mutt, and she likes loud guitars and strong IPAs.
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August 4, 2020
3.5 stars. Really well written and cute novella. It did focus a little too much on forestry at times, and I found the twelve year forward epilogue to be a little too far in the future for how short the story was, but overall I really enjoyed it
November 23, 2019
“God, I love how hot saving the world makes you.”
This was an enjoyable novella and totally left me wanting more. The beginning was a little rough because Miles is a crunchy granola environmentalist but I took to tree logger and manly man Logans character immediately. Once these two enemies get to sparing with each other and then form a truce it was fantastic. We are giving a 12 years later epilogue at the end but I wouldn't have minded a full length novel about these two.
This was an enjoyable novella and totally left me wanting more. The beginning was a little rough because Miles is a crunchy granola environmentalist but I took to tree logger and manly man Logans character immediately. Once these two enemies get to sparing with each other and then form a truce it was fantastic. We are giving a 12 years later epilogue at the end but I wouldn't have minded a full length novel about these two.
September 24, 2020
I loved this book. The characters were complex and came across as layered and realistic people. They made mistakes, judgments and were inherently flawed but decent and genuine people. So often characters can come across as too good to be realistic or believable but Kat Cassidy has managed to make Logan and Miles so honestly human. I loved that the characters developed over the course of the book and were able to see that the judgments they had made were perhaps misguided. Miles and Logan were beautiful together in the way they were able to come from opposing sides and find a middle ground. An amazing book and I would highly recommend!
August 18, 2020
Loved this story
This was a great story. I love ennemies to lovers and this did not disappoint.
I laughed, I smiled, I felt a lot of emotions packed in such a short read.
Logan and Miles are great characters, different but very close in some ways. I love how they bicker and antagonise each other, before things shift.
The end was absolutely perfect. It rounded the story so well. I would have loved to read more, but this was already very satisfying
This was a great story. I love ennemies to lovers and this did not disappoint.
I laughed, I smiled, I felt a lot of emotions packed in such a short read.
Logan and Miles are great characters, different but very close in some ways. I love how they bicker and antagonise each other, before things shift.
The end was absolutely perfect. It rounded the story so well. I would have loved to read more, but this was already very satisfying
November 23, 2019
4.5 stars
August 18, 2020
3.75 stars
July 26, 2023
It was a really cute short story, well written and with the perfect amount of banter and adorable dialogues ! I never thought I would like it as much as I did but I fell in love with the characters. There is a lot of debate about ecology and I think it’s an important topic to talk about nowadays. The enemies to lovers trope was perfect, I could only love this story :))
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