Appalachian Paradise - Softcover

Maggie Bishop

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971304564 ISBN 13: 9780971304567

Publisher: Ingalls Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

Athletic career woman meets good-ole-boy for a five-day backpacking trek in the rugged North Carolina mountains. Appalachian born Wes triggers Suzanne's resentment and her desire amongst boars, bears and Girl Scouts. Suzanne's pack and old hurts lighten as Wes' easy charm helps her truly see the hope and allure of spring flowers, love and forgiveness.

About this title

About the Author

Maggie Bishop is the author of a mystery series, Appalachian Adventure Mysteries, and two romance novels set in the Mountains of North Carolina in the Boone area. "I started with romance and have turned to murder." 

In the Appalachian Adventure Romance series, Award winning APPALACHIAN PARADISE takes place on a five-day backpacking trip in the spring amongst the bears, boars and girl scouts. With this book, you can take the hike without physically taking the hike.  EMERALDS IN THE SNOW involves downhill skiing at Sugar Mountain, an emerald mine, and a cold case mystery. 

Mysteries: The Start: In MURDER AT BLUE FALLS, when her horse finds a body, CSI wannabe Jemma starts to investigate, Detective Tucker comes in and it twists and turns from there. 

And Then: Since pay is low in the mountains, Jemma has more than one job and is also a carpenter.  In  PERFECT FOR FRAMING, trouble's a-brewing in the Property Owners Association where greed and a lust for power lead to murder in a clash of personal versus public needs. 

Now: The photography group meets at Blue Falls Guest Ranch and soon there is ONE SHOT TOO MANY which features Detective Tucker with yesterday's regret haunts, leading to today's deadly fix. 

From the Back Cover

Readers, you are in for a special treat when you pick up APPALACHIAN PARADISE. In today's busy world of doing everything by schedule, on the double, it doesn't leave much time to smell the roses, so to speak. If you recognize yourself in the heroine's lifestyle, it's time to change. <Grin> This is a book you will have a lot of fun reading it's rewarding, thought provoking, and filled with a heady dose of the love bug.

Suzanne Bowers is a high- powered career woman who works in computer programming. Her days are run by a schedule of exercise, work, work, work, and being in control of her feelings at all times. She's been ordered to relax by her therapist, so she decides to take a five-day hike in the mountains of North Carolina when her favorite uncle lets her use his cabin.

Unbeknownst to Suzanne, Wes Avery, a man with enough southern charm to break a ton of hearts, is also headed for Uncle John's cabin. Wes has to pay off a debt to watch over Suzanne by Uncle John and her estranged father. Wes is laid back and totally different from Ms. Control.

Oh, boy, let the camping games begin as Wes and Suzanne set off on a five-day hike that is filled with humor, insightful delving into each others' souls, looking at life in a new perspective, and the love of a lifetime has a great possibility of fruition. Wish I was hiking with the divine Wes right now. Just hearing him call me "Darlin'" would be enough to keep me warm.

APPALACHIAN PARADISE is a romantic adventure that will touch your heart in all the right places. Ms. Bishop spins a beautiful love story that will make you laugh, cry, and sigh. It's about redemption, renewal, hope and taking a chance on finding the partner of your dreams if you're willing to take a chance on love. I'm putting APPALACHIAN PARADISE on my keeper shelf re-read whenever I need a lift. Yes, it's that good!"

Suzanne Coleburn, Winner of the Melinda Helfer Fairy Godmother Award/Reader To Reader Reviews

From the Inside Flap

While working in the corporate world, Maggie Bishop asked a secretary if she could borrow a book to read on vacation. That one contemporary romance paperback changed the course of her life. Maggie devoured four hundred in one year. "My husband couldn't understand the addiction. My nose was in a book all the time, even while in the car at stop lights. At home, Bob would have to call me several times to break my concentration and get my attention."

One evening while driving home from work at Danskin in York, PA, she decided that she could write a romance. She'd been absorbing the rhythms of the stories, the variety in plot lines, the depth of characters. The decision to write was easy - the execution was the hard part. Maggie joined the Romance Writers of America and had a crash course in the craft of writing by attending their national conferences.

In 1993, Maggie and Bob moved with their cat to the mountains of North Carolina. Her father had built a house into the side of a mountain, which Maggie and Bob bought, then kicked her parents upstairs where they live above ground. "I went upstairs every morning for coffee and a visit with Mom and Dad. Other than that, we lived separate lives," Maggie explained.

Writing is a solitary endeavor so she started High Country Writers in 1995 and now has an extensive group of writer friends throughout the North Carolina-Tennessee section of the Appalachians. She spends her time when not writing or attending book signings and other book related events hiking, skiing, swimming and reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ingalls Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971304564
• ISBN 13: 9780971304567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172