Gale Force Book

I have so many fond memories of this one. It's just so... wonderful. Jeremy was a Wall Street hot-shot who grew tired of it all and decided to live a simpler life in the wild of Alaska. Only he grew a bit lonely and ended up exchanging letters with Madison. From one thing came another, and they decided to have a marriage of convenience.

What makes this story so good isn't only the setting (I wanted to be a wild-life biologist when I was a teenager, and move to Alaska to study the wolves, so I gobbled up everything set there), but the fact that both Jeremy and Madison lied in their letters to each others. Not life shattering lies, but more painting a rosier picture of themselves. They talked more about the person they wanted to be than the person they actually were.

So naturally this brings along a couple of bad surprises when they actually meet. The beauty of it all is that even if they lied, those people they painted fit beautifully together, and even if they aren't those people yet, together they become those people. It's how true romance should be really.

It's unlikely but beautiful, and while the last conflict is close to the typical Big Misunderstanding, it was an understandable conflict born out of fear.

It's such a joyful book :)