Baited - Couverture souple

O'Brien, Colleen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1609531558 ISBN 13 : 9781609531553

Editeur : Unbridled Books, 2025

Synopsis

It's 2004, the summer of Glacier Park's grizzly bear DNA study. In the Cut Bank Valley, Clancy Dyer dashes through the aspen to roust her coworker Ezra, but instead she finds his shredded tent and a horrible smell. Ezra has disappeared.

Meanwhile, District Ranger Mack Savage speeds toward the valley's car campground in response to his rookie ranger's report of unusual bear behavior. Mack has been dating Liz Ralston, the biologist conducting a groundbreaking DNA study. Saboteurs have wrenched her materials and she suspects both park personnel and a local climber. Frustrated with Mack's inability to protect her study, Liz has hired a Blackfeet tribal member and local packer who she knows carries a pistol and a grudge. Meanwhile, she may not be above taking her own revenge.

Set amidst Glacier's fierce beauty, Baited grapples with grief, multiple suspicious deaths, differing beliefs surrounding the protection of Glacier's grizzly bears, the park's fraught relationship with the adjacent Blackfeet Reservation, and especially how to reconcile one's love and affection for a person who has committed a reprehensible act.

Told primarily from Clancy and Mack's points of view but with some of the other characters taking center stage as needed, in particular the Native American stories that help shape the novel. The writing abounds with beautifully rendered passages and vivid thumbnail descriptions that make Glacier Park's majestic wilderness a character in itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Colleen O'Brien earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Montana. She taught English at Blackfeet Community College in Browning, MT and worked summers for the park service for several years. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She and her husband own and operate small businesses in the hamlet of East Glacier Park, MT. She lives with her family near Glacier Park. Baited is her first novel and was earlier awarded the Michael Kenneth Smith Fellowship at Porches Writing Retreat in Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Unbridled Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1609531558
• ISBN 13: 9781609531553
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible