Roni Oatman belongs to a crew that conducts Search and Rescue Operations for the Forestry Service deep in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho. They save lost people, but Roni is a bit lost herself. She’s a loner who loves a woman she can’t have.
When the SAR crew is short a member, Selena Ayala is assigned to fill the empty spot. Still on the rebound from a sudden breakup with her girlfriend, Selena has issues of her own. But she has to find a way to gain the crew’s trust, and gain it quickly.
Often the missions in this rugged and unyielding wilderness are matters of life and death, and the SAR members have to be able to depend on each other. Just when Roni and Selena are forming a tentative friendship, Selena’s ex shows up, leaving both Selena and Roni with uneasy questions. Can the two women search deep within to rescue themselves and to find love right out of nowhere?
Nuance
206 pp ● 6x9
$14.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-66-3 (pb)
FICTION – Romance
FICTION – Lesbian
Publication date: September 2016
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.