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Sebastian Ritscher |
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BREAKING WILD
A female hunter is lost in the Colorado wilderness and a ranger is bent on finding her, in a moving literary debut that explores the primal instincts that can lead us astray—or lead us home.
Amy Raye Latour has always found the solace she needs in stretches of wild backcountry spaces. Leaving behind her husband and children for a weekend, she ventures out alone while on a hunting trip with two male companions. But things go terribly wrong as heavy snow and bad choices make it impossible for Amy Raye to make it safely back to camp. When she doesn’t return, a massive search and rescue operation ensues.
Ranger Pru Hathaway with her search and rescue dog respond to the call, but after more snowfall and few leads, the operation turns into a search and recovery for a body. Pru, though, is not resigned to that. The more she learns about the woman for whom she is searching, and about Amy Raye’s shadowy past, the more she suspects that Amy Raye might yet be alive. Pru’s own search becomes an obsession for a woman whose life is just as mysterious as the clues she has left behind.
As the novel follows Amy Raye and Pru in alternating threads, Breaking Wild assumes the white-knuckled pace of a thriller laying bare Amy Raye’s struggle to remain alive despite harrowing conditions, and Pru’s dogged pursuit of the woman who, against all odds, she believes she can find.
Diane Les Becquets is an Associate Professor of English and a faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA Program in Fiction and Nonfiction. In addition to teaching creative writing, she has worked as a medical journalist; an archaeology assistant; a marketing consultant; a sand and gravel dispatcher; a copywriter; and a lifeguard, and is also an avid outdoorswoman. A native of Nashville, she spent almost fourteen years living in a small Colorado ranching town before moving to New Hampshire.
Ranger Pru Hathaway with her search and rescue dog respond to the call, but after more snowfall and few leads, the operation turns into a search and recovery for a body. Pru, though, is not resigned to that. The more she learns about the woman for whom she is searching, and about Amy Raye’s shadowy past, the more she suspects that Amy Raye might yet be alive. Pru’s own search becomes an obsession for a woman whose life is just as mysterious as the clues she has left behind.
As the novel follows Amy Raye and Pru in alternating threads, Breaking Wild assumes the white-knuckled pace of a thriller laying bare Amy Raye’s struggle to remain alive despite harrowing conditions, and Pru’s dogged pursuit of the woman who, against all odds, she believes she can find.
Diane Les Becquets is an Associate Professor of English and a faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA Program in Fiction and Nonfiction. In addition to teaching creative writing, she has worked as a medical journalist; an archaeology assistant; a marketing consultant; a sand and gravel dispatcher; a copywriter; and a lifeguard, and is also an avid outdoorswoman. A native of Nashville, she spent almost fourteen years living in a small Colorado ranching town before moving to New Hampshire.
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