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Melissa Hart, a desperately lonely young divorce and L.A. transplant, finds herself stranded in rainy Eugene, Oregon, working from home in the company of her two cats and two large mutts. At the local dog park, she meets a fellow dog owner named Jonathan a tall, handsome man with a unibrow and hawk-like nose. When he invites her to accompany him on a drive to Portland to retrieve six hundred pounds of frozen rats and a fledgling barred owl, sparks fly!Their courtship blossoms in a raptor rehabilitation center where wounded owls, eagles, falcons, and other iconic birds of prey take refuge and become ambassadors for their species. Initially, Melissa volunteers here in order to sink her talons into her new love interest, but soon she falls hopelessly in love with her fine feathered charges Archimedes, a gorgeous snowy owl Lorax, a serene great-horned owl and Bodhi, a baby barred with a permanently injured wing.
About the Author
I'm the author of Better with Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens (Sasquatch, 2019) . Oregon Battle of the Books featured my award-winning middle-grade novel, Avenging the Owl, (Sky Pony, 2016) as one of their 2018-19 middle-grade selections. I also wrote the YA memoir, Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood (Seal, 2009) and Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family (Lyons 2014) . My writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Orion, High Country News, The Advocate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Hemispheres, Horizon Air Magazine, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Education week, and numerous other national and international publications. I'm contributing editor at The Writer Magazine, and I teach for Southern New Hampshire University's M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. You can catch me leading workshops and at writing conferences, schools, and libraries across the Pacific Northwest.Find me on Instagram at @WildMelissaHart.com, on Twitter at @MelissaMHart, and at www.melissahart.com .
