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Detour to Paradise
by River Ames
Genre: Sweet Contemporary Romance



Lucas Rockworth—a hard-driving force of nature has been ordered by his

doctor to take some time off and get his blood pressure under

control. You would think buying a cabin in the natural splendor known

as Gray Horse Lake, Idaho, would do the trick. All that mountain

greenery, crystal blue lakes and rivers, and nature-run-amok had to

be exactly what the doctor had ordered.

Enter Sarah Burke…
The innocently enticing young entrepreneur who’s

opening an equestrian camp for children with handicaps.

Her initial impression of him is clearly wrong. For some reason, known to

the reader but unknown to him, Sarah mistakenly believes that Lucas

Rockworth is a shy, sensitive man. After having to deal a lifetime

with a dominating older brother and controlling father, she finds

these traits very appealing.

Her recent breakup with someone who could best be described as a bully

has Sarah longing for a kinder, gentler man in her life.

Lucas tells himself that, since he makes his living as a general

contractor, he has the hands-on experience to make himself into

anything Miss Sarah Burke is looking for.

It shouldn’t be that great a stretch to become a modern, sensitive

kind of guy, should it? She wants Mr. Rogers… Well, darn, he can

manage that for the short time he’s in Idaho.

How hard can it be to tame his darker, more cynical side?

As for Sarah Burke? She thinks she’s met a real life version of Mr.

Rogers. But, the reader knows its Rambo who’s come

a’courting.

Would the real Lucas Rockworth care to step forward?


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River Ames spent the first eighteen years of her life in Southern

California. Here is a partial list of some of the cities in which she

lived: Pasadena, South Pasadena, Duarte, El Monte, Arcadia La Puente,

Lomita, West Covina, Pacifica, Santa Monica, Palmdale, and Hacienda

Heights. In some of those cities, she lived at six different

addresses. In the city of La Puente, River’s family lived in four

different houses on the same street. The non-glamorous reason for all

the moves was habitual eviction necessitated for non-payment of rent.

It was an interesting way to grow up.

River attended twenty-six different elementary schools, two different

junior high schools and four different high schools. In one

elementary school, she was a student for only three days.

Perhaps, because she was so frequently identified as the “new girl,”

the pattern of River being an observer instead of a participant in

the interactions going on around her seemed a logical fit for her

personality.

When she was thirteen, River read “Gone with the Wind.” She

skipped three days of school in order to finish the book in one

sitting. Disappointed in Rhett for “not giving a damn,”

River wrote her own sequel–in long hand, on three-hole punch,

notebook paper. The opening line? “Tomorrow dawned bright and

fair.” In less than fifty pages, Scarlett had been transformed

into Jane Eyre and Rhett had fallen in love with her all over again.

After Southern California, River has spent the next part of her life living

in the semi-rural town of Idaho Falls, Idaho. She is a graduate of

Idaho State University, majoring in Health Education Sciences and

Addiction Counseling. She’s worked the past ten years at a Behavioral

Health Center where she assisted children, teenagers, and adults

committed in a 24/7 secured facility because of mental health

challenges they are experiencing.

River’s books celebrate the good-natured humor that lays at the heart of most

of our human predicaments. The conflicts are significant, yet it is

her characters and their quirky (yet somehow universally relatable)

thoughts, words, and choices that reflect a light-hearted peek into a

world we wish was real. The amazing thing is that these worlds are

real to readers for the time they visit there.

Readers have said: “In a River Ames book, one minute I’m laughing out

loud, and the next I have a lump in my throat.”

River is currently readying a historical novel, “Gideon’s Justice.”

This three-part novel is Book I in a three volume western series set

in the Colorado Territory.


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