title: Dance on the Wild Side: A True Story of Love Between Man and Woman and Wilderness
author:  Roland Cheek 
description: - Cheek's newest book is a love story - You ought to get to know Roland and Jane Cheek; their new book, &#34;Dance on the Wild Side,&#34; is just the way to do it. - Roland Cheek is a regular contributor to Outdoors Across Montana. He writes a column that leans heavily on his years in the mountains as an outfitter and guide. He is author of &#34;Learning to Talk Bear,&#34; a Cheek perspective on grizzly bears, and &#34;The Phantom Ghost of Harriet Lou,&#34; a collection of stories about elk hunting and life in general. - Cheek also leans heavily on his wife, Jane, as many of us husbands do. There is plenty of evidence of Jane Cheek's hand throughout this book, whether it is in her influence on the young Roland or in the turn of a phrase that speaks of a little more grace than might have been picked up through three decades of outfitting in Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness - &#34;Dance on the Wild Side&#34; is a memoir, mostly from Roland Cheek's perspective, and it is a love story. It begins in a time that has become just distant enough to take on that golden patina of nostalgia and it continues right up until now. It begins in a small town in Oregon and moves to a growing town in northwestern Montana. - You'll like the Cheeks. They worked for everything they have and in this country that kind of currency is worth more than its face value. - Roland Cheek was born in the West Texas Hill Country and moved to southwestern Oregon in 1937. - Jane Cheek left Arkansas with her parents in 1944 and wound up next door to Roland. - They married in 1954 and 10 years later they moved to Montana. You meet the Cheeks when they are just kids living next door to each other in Oregon, and you follow them through raising a family, growing a business and finally retirement, of sorts. - There are dark passages in this book: Roland's devotion to a haunting older brother, an underlying characteristic of belligerence in the man and some trouble in the marriage. - But as Jane Cheek's publicity notes say, the book's thrust is that it is never too late to simplify; that one is never to old to seek adventure and that one should do what one loves and contentment will follow. Besides this story about a couple that becomes a family, the book also is full of encounters with wild animals and colorful characters. It is all set against the backdrop of America's fine country--first in Oregon in the 1940s and 50s and then Montana's great backcountry. --Great Falls Tribune<br /><br />Just before Christmas I was searching for a special gift for Lee and found and ordered your books Dance on the Wild Side and My Best Work is Done at the Office . It was quite a surprise to find .....well, ME in your book. (The picture proves I ve never exaggerated on the size of that Dolly. I always said it would have taken 2 big fishermen to lift that baby up.) When we skimmed through it we laughed till we had tears in our eyes then we took it along to Leigh's (she, her husband and their son live several miles from us) and she enjoyed it every bit as much. Those memories are priceless. I've since read Dance on the Wild Side from cover to cover and I must say I am impressed. Your talent for capturing a reader equals your skill of guiding and enlightening outsiders to wilderness treasures. I'm glad you have the same fond memories of us as we do you! We look forward to reading all your books. You can see Leanie's picture on page 280, in Dance on the Wild Side. RC --Your PA Nemesis! Leanie Hitz<br /><br />Dance on the Wild Side is terrific reading, part true life adventure, part inspiration, and part blueprint for a life worth living. - --The Midwest Book Review
zlib_text: Backwoods
  Cara McKenna
   
  A standalone prequel to Shivaree .
   
  Shane thinks he’s simply auditioning a new musician for his bar, but when Gabriel saunters into
  the Shivaree it becomes clear the man has more to offer than just his talent.
  Gabriel’s got sexual charisma potent enough to make a straight man such as Shane lose his senses,
  lose sleep, lose himself to dark desires and not want to find his way back to reality.
  What follows is not a love story. This is a story about an unforeseen attraction that brings a strong,
  sane man to his knees, and about lovers tangled up in each other too deep to know who’s in control
  and who’s helpless.
   
  An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication
  www.ellorascave.com
  
  Backwoods
  ISBN 9781419929441
  
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  Backwoods Copyright © 2010 Cara McKenna
  
  Edited by Jaynie Ritchie
  
  Cover art by Syneca
   
  Electronic book publication September 2010
   
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