The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest by Melanie Dickerson

Someone has to feed those kids, and the authorities don’t seem to care about them. But the young lady vividly remembers her childhood, and her efforts to help other children in her former situation take up most of her time. These days she lives with her wealthy uncle, and is considered the most eligible single woman in Thornbeck. Twenty-year-old Odette grew up a poor orphan. It just seemed to throw in some preaching at times that did not feel right with the story.

One of my all time favorite books is Christian fiction, ( Redeeming Love) so that's not it. Now don't get me wrong I don't hate that type of book. I also did not realize when I requested this one that it should be billed as Christian fiction. This book could do well for a younger reader set and at first I liked it then.after all the boys started chasing Odette's milkshake. Jorgen meets Odette at a Midsummer Nights festival and they both are moony eyed over the other. Then a new forester is appointed to guard the margrave's woods. She does not enjoy the killing but needs to feed the kiddies.

She herself is now rich but was orphaned and had faced poverty before. Odette takes her bow and arrow into the woods and slays for food for the town's poor children. I love stories that involve female's that don't just stand around. But what will the margrave do when he discovers his forester is protecting a notorious poacher? Jorgen and Odette will band together to stop the dangerous poaching ring.and fall in love. The one person Odette knows can help her could also find out her own secret and turn her over to the margrave, but she has no choice. But will the discovery of a local poaching ring reveal a terrible secret? Has the meat she thought she was providing for the poor actually been sold on the black market, profiting no one except the ring of black market sellers?

Odette justifies her crime of poaching because she thinks the game is going to feed the poor, who are all but starving, both in the city and just outside its walls. When he meets the lovely and refined Odette at the festival and shares a connection during a dance, he has no idea she is the one who has been poaching the margrave’s game. Jorgen is the forester for the wealthy margrave, and must find and capture the poacher who has been killing and stealing the margrave’s game. 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 forester.

The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest by Melanie Dickerson