Territorial Rights

by Melissa Scott (Pseudonym), Joyce Thies

CALL OF THE WILD — Forced to share an office with the science department's new darling, Doug Traxler, Meredith found that her year teaching literature was a nightmare. She never knew what she might find floating in formaldehyde on her desk. Now, to her horror, she had to hike with Doug's ecology class all summer. Nature Girl she was not, but when Doug dared her to come down from her ivory tower and meet the demands of the wilderness, she accepted the challenge. She found that far more than her pride was at stake. Doug had opened her heart as well as her mind to the world around her.

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Annarose · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meridith is a respectable literature teacher who is totally devoted to two things in her life: her brother and her job. She definitely hates macho men oozing sex appeal more than they could chew, especially Doug Tracler, the new ecology doctor who is making her teaching days living hell. While he is sharing her office, not only he leaves nasty things in the office, but also nags her mercilessly and consistently by insinuating that she has no knowledge of life other than what she reads in books! When the summer vacation finally comes along, she is relieved from his presence. However, when she grudgingly accepts accompanying her brother's fiancée to a trip to a remote island for her thesis about wolves, she discovers she is in the same ferry Doug was in with some of his students and going to the same island! No way would she ever waste three weeks of her lovely vacation bantering with him, so she decides to go back home. Doug, on the other hand, is not welling to fulfill her wish. She was in his territory and he wants to give her lessons!

A lovely book. Enjoyable to read till the end even though I would have liked it better if the hero admitted he loved her before she did.

[Angelina Neale · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first romance. It will always hold a special place on my bookshelf. It possibly doesn't deserve 5 stars but the memory does. X Angelina.

[Jan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I always like it when starchy characters get un-starched.