Friday Book Snippets is a weekly blogging event co-hosted by Anne@HeadFullofBooks and Olivia at Bemused and Bookish. Directions: Share two snippets (a sentence or short paragraph) from a. the book's beginning and b. page 56 (or another page) in the book you are currently reading. No spoilers, please.
This week I'm featuring Lost Without You (The Chimney Creek Romances Book 2) by Emily Conrad.
To save the land beside Chimney Creek State Park from a mining operation, jaded park ranger Luke Fielding must show the Wisconsin legislature the property’s value. The federally threatened Canada lynx that treks through might help him turn skeptics into allies, but the animal proves elusive and the legislature demands evidence that might not exist to find, even for a skilled outdoorsman like Luke.
Photographer Bailey Sterling is broke, but with her upbeat attitude, her camera, and her teardrop camper, she’s set to camp out in Chimney Creek State Park until she can earn some income from the local tourism board. While there, she’ll cross the northern lights off her bucket list, thanks to the park’s famous overlook. Or so she hopes until a Northwoods blizzard brings trouble even the grumpy park ranger, who tried to convince her to leave before the storm, failed to predict.
Forced together by the storm and duty, Luke and Bailey soon discover they need each other, and not just to salvage her assignment and protect the land he loves. But claiming a future together would mean doing something neither is ready for—admitting they’d each be lost without the other.
This warmhearted and faith-filled romance is book 2 in the loosely connected Chimney Creek Romances.
Book Beginning / First Line
In defiance of the blizzard barreling toward Chimney Creek State Park, a one-hundred-thirty-pound lump of fur lazily peered up at Luke Fielding from a snowbank.
Snippet from 55%
Bailey peered out the window at the large, white farmhouse. In the dark countryside, the lights shining from all the first-floor windows should've been welcoming, but she might as well have been approaching a portal to another world. "You grew up here?"
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I need to know what kind of animal that lump of fur is! :-D
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend!
That cover is so cute! The book sounds fun, too. :D
ReplyDeleteIs the lump of fur an animal or is it referring to a human dressed very warmly? Ha!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds fun.
ReplyDeleteIt's been spooky everything for me this month. I'm finally working on some nonfiction just to change things up, but I saw that my hold for Frieda McFadden's latest The Witch finally came up. So back to more spooky it seems.
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