Tender Misdemeanors
by Alana Lorens
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Caryn Orlane has law enforcement in her blood; her father was a cop, and his father, too. She's a federal
agent in northwest Montana, protecting the old forests and keeping the peace.
Levi Bradshaw also believes in protecting the forests, but has a very different MO. He's the leader of a
group of eco-warriors, determined to save the trees of the Bitterroot by legal—and illegal—means.
When they meet in the woods at gunpoint, their encounter ignites a spark of interest, despite operating
on opposite sides of the law. When their worlds turn on them, they only grow closer. If they don't work
together, can either survive?
Alana Lorens (aka Barbara Mountjoy) has been a published writer for over 35 years, including seven
years as a reporter and editor at the South Dade News Leader in Homestead, Florida. Her list of
publications includes the non-fiction book 101 Little Instructions for Surviving Your Divorce, published by
Impact Publishers in 1999, stories in A Cup of Comfort for Divorced Women, in December 2008, and A
Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Parents, in June 2009.
GUEST POST
Ecotage—a
dangerous form of protest
In
TENDER MISDEMEANORS, Levi Bradshaw and some of his companions are
engaged in the business of monkeywrenching or ecotage. They see
themselves as brave defenders of the wild places left in America,
specifically in the forests of the Rockies and the Bitterroot. This
particular movement has been going on for some 50 years, organized in
direct opposition to the Bureau of Land Management’s inventories
and classification of the old forests in preparation for allowing
loggers to harvest.
From
Ecodefense:
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching:
Monkeywrenching
is done by individuals or very small groups of people who have known
each other for years. Trust and a good working relationship are
essential in such groups. The more people involved, the greater the
dangers of infiltration or a loose mouth. Monkeywrenchers avoid
working with people they haven’t known for a long time, those who
can’t keep their mouths closed, and those with grandiose or violent
ideas (they may be police agents or dangerous crackpots).
Various
actions constitute monkeywrenching, and they include such things as
hammering metal spikes into trees to discourage the use of saw
blades, which can shatter and harm the logger using them; spiking or
littering a road with caltrops
to puncture tires of loggers or others who come to the anticipated
logging site; disabling work vehicles, stealing drill bits, and so
much more. Other, less intrusive means have been attempted by
“tree-sitters”, who literally climb a tree slated for harvest and
remain there, hoping to dissuade loggers from taking down the tree.
Greenpeace chasing whaling ships would be another example of
ecodefenders risking their lives to save the oceans.
The
practices are, of course, illegal, though they are often seen in the
eyes of the ecodefenders as the sort of “civil disobedience”
called for by dissidents such as Thoreau. In light of the current
administration’s actions to privatize public lands and allow the
destruction of the forests and other lands which have protected
wildlife and our history over hundreds of years, we may expect to see
more of such action in future.
In
TENDER MISDEMEANORS, heroine Caryn Orlane is an enforcement officer
for the Bureau of Land Management, which of course puts her in direct
opposition to Levi and his team. But when Levi’s people are
infiltrated (as warned above) by some highly-armed white supremacist
“crackpots,” the lines between enemy and friend blur
considerably, and they’ve got to watch their backs.
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