I am an indoor kid. I know this is a surprise for exactly zero people who know
me, but I prefer some kind of barrier between me and anything resembling nature.
I adore looking at it. It’s the being in it where things start to fall
apart.
While I was plotting and writing THE HUNTING GROUNDS I had
to do a significant amount of research. I’ve visited Glacier National Park a few
times when I was younger, and it made quite the impression on me, so it seemed
natural enough to set the story there. It’s beautiful and sprawling and the
perfect place to strand a group of hikers who won’t all make it back to
civilization alive.
Then there were the park rangers—in the course of my research and questions I
posed, there is no way I’m not on some watch-list somewhere—and camping
and all the nitty gritty details that need to go into a book to ground it
effectively in reality. It was a total blast putting it together.
Which is where this story starts to break down.
In all my hours and days and weeks of research, I started to feel pretty on top
of it. Surely nature isn’t that bad, and maybe it’d be kind of fun to
go on a hike—not a multi-day one, but a nice couple of miles somewhere local. So
I dug out my book about local hiking routes, picked one that seemed rather
reasonable, and convinced the family this was a most excellent idea.
It was a nice 3 mile hike and we were familiar with the drop off points. Easy
enough. Except I didn’t take into account that we started on the opposite end
from my handy dandy guide book. And I didn’t realize there was over a thousand
feet of elevation gain. Or that the path branched a few times—if we’d started
the right way, this wouldn’t have been an issue, but things got rather confusing
rather fast.
Fast forward nearly two hours and five miles and we’ve been lost twice, the kids
are sure I picked this activity solely to torture them and ensure we all die in
the woods, and my husband is giving me serious side eye about my lack of
preparation.
But hey—at least I didn’t forget the mosquito repellant so we were only halfway
eaten alive instead of all the way.
Where do you fall on the camping spectrum? Do you love it? Or is a hotel with
air conditioning more your style?
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Maggie Gaines used to be an FBI agent—top of her class and one of the bright,
up-and-coming stars—until she spectacularly fell apart during her first
high-profile case. That was eight years ago. Now she’s a ranger at Glacier
National Park, and she’s found some measure of peace. But when the body of a
murdered woman is discovered, she must finally put the past behind her and work
with the one man she thought she’d never see again.
For months, Vic Sutherland has been hunting a killer who’s been targeting
unsuspecting hikers in national parks—and now the predator has come to Glacier.
Vic knows the case will bring him face-to-face with his former partner, yet
nothing can prepare him for seeing Maggie again after all these years, or for
the memories of passion it stirs in both of them.
As the investigation brings them closer together—and closer to the
killer—Maggie and Vic fear they have only each other to trust. But even that
might not be enough to make it out of Glacier alive.
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Katee Robert learned to tell stories at her Grandpa’s knee. Her favorites
then were the rather
epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at age twelve she discovered romance
novels and
never looked back. Now living in Eastern Washington, she spends her time--in
between ogling
men and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse--writing speculative
romance novels.
My idea of roughing it is a hotel without a restaurant. I've never been a fan of camping. Don't mind going to the park, but that's as rough as I want it.
(Linda Henderson 8:35pm July 24, 2017)
I love to camp, but as I get older, the idea of a hotel while we are traveling always sounds better!
(Nicole Bouchey 8:56am July 25, 2017)
I used to love to camp when I was younger but now much prefer a nice hotel with good AC!
(Gail Perdue 10:33am July 25, 2017)
I love the idea of camping, but please, please, give me a hotel or motel room with air conditioning.
(Anna Speed 11:11pm July 25, 2017)
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