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1 Listopia's Books Where The Hero & Heroine Get Married/Engaged
Della
Street Jones is everyone’s ‘good little girl’ and is tired of
the label. Munk Riley is the skinny little thief she shared her lunch
with until the family left the Copper Basin. Riley, caught by the
Jones family, is given a chance to redeem himself and earns a diesel
mechanic certification.
Munk
wants to marry Della and have all the things denied him growing up
the only child of an alcoholic mother.
Taking
a job without telling her, causes a blow out between them.
Embarrassed, Della takes a live-in position at a remote lodge. There
she finds something that causes her to send an SOS to her family to
get her out. Munk will do anything to get Della home. But does Della
belong where everyone else thinks she does? Can they get out without
waking the man who controls the underbelly of Alaska?
Review
of Baubles & Beads
An
enjoyable read. Recommend!
This
was a very enjoyable read. One of the things I like is reading about
areas and peoples that I don't know much about. Baubles and Beads
allows me to do that with the story centred on backwoods Alaska and
the Athabascan natives of Alaska. The Athabascans have issues with
alcoholism, drug abuse, unemployment, discrimination and harassment
of their traditional pursuits. Yet, there is still a strong,
unyielding, hierarchical control from the elders of the community. In
this story, "good girl" Della Jones, just wants to shed her
image and make some decisions for herself, before she is too old. She
is in love with Munk, a boy who came up the hard way, but is now
reformed. Della gets a summer job in an exclusive lodge and finds
herself in a mess of trouble over a lost USB drive. It is Munk and
his rather tough friends to the rescue. This was a fun, enjoyable
read and taught me something about the native Alaskans, which is
always a good thing. A sweet, romance with a bit of action/adventure
thrown in. Definitely recommend this one.
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