New Book Release: Saving Her Prairie - by Heidi M. Thomas

 

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Battle for the Soul of the Prairie

In this modern “David vs Goliath” story, Dede Hume is thrust into the decades-old battle for grasslands in the wide-open spaces of Montana.

When her dad is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and her parents take early retirement, Dede and her younger brother are left in charge of their ranch. She’s plunged into a dilemma beyond her wildest imagination—a struggle to save the family legacy.

Managing a financially viable ranch is hard enough without having to battle the huge wildlife preserve organization buying up the land around her. Their agenda: reintroduce species to the prairie that will end the way of life for ranchers. Joining forces with her neighbors, she helps fight to maintain the family-owned businesses that have fed the nation for generations.

But will a new friendship expose her plans to the organization and set her on a course to lose everything her parents built? How can one young woman make a difference before the ranch is wrenched from her forever?

About the author:

Heidi M. Thomas grew up on a working ranch in eastern Montana, riding and gathering cattle for branding and shipping. Her parents taught her a love of books, and her grandmother rode bucking stock in rodeos. She followed her dream of writing, with a journalism degree from the University of Montana. Heidi is the author of the award-winning “Cowgirl Dreams” novel series and Cowgirl Up: A History of Rodeo Women plus Seeking the American Dream, Finding True Home, Rescuing Samantha, Rescuing Hope, and Rescue Ranch Rising, Goth-girl to Cowgirl and Saving Her Prairie.

New Book Release: Let Him Go Wild - by Robert Ronning

 

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In Let Him Go Wild, the sequel to Wild Call to Boulder Field, park ranger Wade Conrad searches for black-market wildlife traders in Arizona’s White Mountains, while Jesse Hayduke, paroled from jail, labors uneasily at a golf course along the Coronado Trail. Until he meets the course cart-girl, Ruby Martinez, a young woman of Apache-Mexican heritage, who takes a liking to Jesse and shares with him the healing powers of the wilderness and a respect for wildlife—especially for Perrito, a curious coyote pup that friends Jesse after a trapper takes away his family. When the human-coyote connection has its tender moment, Jesse strays over the natural divide between people and wild creatures. He has to learn to “do no harm” and allow Perrito to go his own way in the wild. But it is through Perrito that destiny calls Jesse and Ruby to face the malicious animal trapper and his illegal wildlife captures at his remote encampment. Wade, tracking Jesse, reaches the appalling camp and confronts the trapper for a reckoning over his cruelty and killing.

About the author:

Robert Ronning had an early career in theatre, earning a Ph.D. in communication arts. He directed two plays Off Broadway: a comedy about George Bernard Shaw and a concert docudrama on Albert Einstein at Lincoln Center. He taught performance literature at City University of New York. His writing has appeared in local, regional, and national publications. He pivoted to write about wildlife and conservation, including his adventure novel, Wild Call to Boulder Field, and its sequel, Let Him Go Wild. He lives in Tucson and summers in Arizona's White Mountains, just a few minutes daily dog walk from National Forest and wildlife.