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...Deanna Wolfe, 47, lives alone in a cabin up on Zebulon Mountain performing a "hybrid job" for the National Park Service and the Forest Service. The appearance of a handsome drifter named Eddie Bondo unsettles her sexually - "A pulse of electricity ran up the insides of her thighs like lightning ripping up two trees at once, leaving her to smolder or maybe burst into flames" - and disturbs her in another way. She has discovered a nest of coyotes on the mountain, the first sighting in the region in decades, and Bondo, who grew up on a sheep ranch in Wyoming...
...novel and she'll run it the way she sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth in her cabin and steps outside to liberate it, a bird darts down and grabs a free meal...
...December finds you driven to distraction by noisy, aggressive crowds, head for the Ridgeline Log Cabin in Danbury, N.H., just two hours from Boston. Set atop Ragged Mountain Ski Resort's northeast peak, the Ridgeline cabin is 2,000 sq. ft. of rustic isolation that sleeps anywhere from two to 28 people (the more people, the more reasonable the cost). The only access to the 2,000-ft. peak is by chair lift, or a sled pulled by a snow-grooming machine. (Bring your cell phone.) After the last lift closes in the early evening, Ragged Mountain is all yours...
...party that comprised eight adults and 12 children. Cullinane and his siblings felt they were drifting apart after the death of their parents, so they decided "to find a retreat where we could get to know one another again--to bond and bring the family back." Says Cullinane: "The cabin did just that...
Some of the younger family members were worried that Santa might not know what had become of them. No problem: on Christmas Eve one mother sprinkled some "reindeer dust" (oatmeal and glitter) on the snow outside the cabin, because she knew that would attract Santa's reindeer to their mountaintop cabin www.ragged-mt.com...