“Tell me Clementine, what do you seek? I mean, what do you love? What do you need to know more about than anything else?” She held the bead in her hand and looked down at it as if it was a note with small printing. It had struck me as out of place, even though the Great Lakes had its own giant: the sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), whose females could live for 150 years, growing to six feet in length. I’d found it washed up on the beach close to the port city of Singapore, over the dune from Spookstad. Grateful, I gave her my sketch of the Western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) and a bead carrying the image of a whale. If you get in a fight, keep your chin down, use your hands to cover your face, and keep your thumb outside your fist.”
Gesternte saw the tightness in my mouth as I said goodbye. Though Wesley’s betrothed, the cute, clever naturalist threatens to make him fall into temptation… Dare she reveal her secret to him? Can she keep her career if she does?Īmong run-ins with cowboys, natural disasters, and traveling shows, Wesley’s most fascinating adventure is meeting Calvin. When Wesley, the expedition’s gentle preacher, catches her eye, she can’t get him out of her head not his lush lips, wide brown eyes…or broad chest. A mysterious tonic offers her just that disguise.īut “Calvin”, as she calls herself now, had no idea what she was giving up. To sneak on an adventurous prospecting expedition, Clementine will have to convince everyone she’s a man. To get ahead she’ll have to become a man - and a man, she always thought, never let’s love get in the way…Ĭlementine dreams of being a naturalist - dreams that leave no time for romance.
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