MFTR #01: HUNTRESS OF THORNBECK FOREST THE

PAPERBACK - Melanie Dickerson

y day, Odette is the daughter of a rich merchant, but by night she's the region's most notorious poacher. Gamekeeper Jorgen is in pursuit of the poacher, little knowing it's the girl he fell for at a dance...

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:Swan Lake meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region's most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the gamekeeper.

Jorgen is the gamekeeper for the wealthy margrave, and he is in pursuit of the poacher who has been killing and stealing the margrave's game. When he meets the lovely and refined Odette at the festival and shares a connection during a dance, he has no idea that at night she is the one who has been poaching the margrave's game.

Odette is caught up in a ring of black market sellers of poached animals. She thinks the game is going to feed the poor, who are all but starving, both in the city and just outside its walls. However, most of the animals are being sold by the greedy leader of the ring?her stepfather. When Odette discovers what he is doing, she threatens to expose him, putting herself in great danger.

The gamekeeper finds her poaching one night and shoots her, wounding her. When he realizes who she is, he hides her to keep her from being executed by the margrave and also to protect her from her stepfather. Jorgen and Odette will band together to stop the black market poaching ring ... as they fall in love. But what will the margrave do when he discovers his gamekeeper is protecting a notorious poacher?