title: Life with Gus
author: Sharolyn L Sievert
description: Sharolyn Sievert, a Dog Writers Association of America (DWAA) finalist in 2015, is an engineering coordinator by trade and has been active in volunteer Search and Rescue since 2003. A member of Central Lakes Search and Rescue, she responds with her unit to calls from Law Enforcement from across the Upper Midwest of the United States to search for missing persons. The strength and purpose of their motto, . . . so that others may live. is not taken lightly. While she truly loves training dogs to cultivate and heighten their innate skills to locate the human scent, the goal is serious. Sharolyn was born in Tachikowa, Japan in an Air Force Base hospital on Mothers Day, and her brothers liked to tell people that her left big toe is stamped Made in Japan (it really isnt). Sharolyns dad was an Eagle Scout and throughout his life, an avid outdoorsman and hunter. Because of her Dads love of the outdoors, family outings were often spent hiking in the woods and vacations meant camping. Her sister noted how very proud he would have been of his daughter's work with Search and Rescue. Sharolyns personal knowledge of outdoor survival, gleaned from a lifetime of experience, adds both to her skill as a SAR volunteer and to the accuracy of the SAR work presented in her book. Her family is incredibly proud and supportive of her out of the norm volunteer work. The miles spent on the road, crashing through woods in all weather, the hours of training, are a precious gift to those she serves. Over the years Sharolyn has trained and certified four different dogs in multiple disciplines, and responded to many, many searches. Additionally, she serves as an instructor, a speaker, a K-9 evaluator, and maintains certification in a number of areas beyond the K-9 work she loves, including being a Certified Minnesota Emergency Manager. Her hope is that the reader will find in the pages of her books an appreciation for the incredible, highly skilled work that a Search and Rescue dog can do, and the amazing dedication it takes to be a K-9 Search and Rescue handler.
zlib_text: About the Book
  
    
  
  Sian Bishop has only ever experienced one moment of recklessness – a moment
  that resulted in her beloved son Rory. It’s not that she doesn’t love the
  outcome of that wild night, but since then she has always taken the safer
  route. So when dependable, devoted Richard suggests a move to the beautiful
  English countryside, she leaves the hustle and bustle of the city behind, and
  she throws herself into the picture-postcard cottage garden, her furniture
  restoration business, and a new life in the country.
  
  Her good intentions are torpedoed on a glorious summer’s evening with the
  arrival of Gus Berresford. One-time explorer and full-time heartbreaker, Gus
  is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous and a completely inappropriate
  love interest for a single mum. But Gus and Sian have met before …
  
  Sian has no use for a fling, she simply mustn’t fall in love with the most
  unlikely suitor ever to cross her path – even if he has now crossed her path
  twice. But who knows wh