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by Laurie Salzler
by Laurie Salzler
Country girl Chris Martel has struggled all her life to form strong, lasting relationships. For Chris, love, compassion, and trust are critical. In their absence, she has turned to her dog and her horse for the emotional fulfillment she craves. Then along comes Mary Jo Cavanaugh.
Fresh out of veterinary school, Mary Jo inadvertently antagonizes Chris with her overconfident assumptions about how to care for animals. She comes to learn that Chris’s practical experience provides both a wealth of knowledge and a friendship unlike any she’s ever known.
The carefully built walls around Chris’s heart crumble as she acknowledges the unfamiliar feelings evoked by being with Mary Jo. Just as she believes she’s found the happiness that had always eluded her, someone from Chris’s past comes back into her life. Can the love between Chris and Mary Jo survive so they can share a kiss before dawn?
Rainbow Award
Winner
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
“Laurie Salzler makes you feel the soft fur of horses, breath the clean air, enjoy the fantastic landscape, as well as live a beautiful story about a woman who didn’t really believes that something so magnificent could happen to her until she met the love of her life.” — Lesbian Fiction Review
“The pace of the novel, like the life in the countryside, is laid back and relaxing. People take their time, drink coffee, talk to each other. They notice flowers, the weather, the smell of a new truck, the smell of the forest, the birds. The scenery and animals are wonderfully vivid and real and the leisurely pace encourages you to sit back and enjoy living in the novel for a while.” — Review, Clare Ashton
Details
Details
Nuance Books
218 pp. ● 6x9
$15.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-62-5 (pb)
FICTION – Romance
FICTION – Lesbian
Originally from the United States, Laurie now calls the Northern Rivers of coastal New South Wales, Australia, home. She lives in a small town alongside the Clarence River with her three dogs, Maine Coon cat, and a cheeky Stockhorse named Harry.
As a member of a local wildlife rescue organization, she is active in preserving her town’s population of endangered koalas, which often-times finds her face-to-face with sick and very cranky animals. Laurie also heads her region’s Emergency Response Team, which conducts searches and performs triage for wildlife during emergencies such as bushfires and floods, as well as heat events, which adversely affect bats and flying foxes. Thankfully she’s retired from the workforce.
In addition to the works published under Laurie Salzler, she has also co-authored two books under the pen name of Laurie Eichler.
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