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Natural Attraction
By: Catherine Haustein
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To get ahead she’ll have to become a man -- and a man, she always thought, never let’s love get in the way…
Clementine dreams of being a naturalist -- dreams that leave no time for romance. To sneak on an adventurous prospecting expedition, Clementine will have to convince everyone she’s a man. A mysterious tonic offers her just that disguise.
But “Calvin”, as she calls herself now, had no idea what she was giving up. When Wesley, the expedition’s gentle preacher, catches her eye, she can’t get him out of her head; not his lush lips, wide brown eyes … or broad chest. Dare she reveal her secret to him? Can she keep her career if she does?
Among run-ins with cowboys, natural disasters, and traveling shows, Wesley’s most fascinating adventure is meeting Calvin. Though Wesley’s betrothed, the cute, clever naturalist threatens to make him fall into temptation…
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Grateful, I gave her my sketch of the Western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) and a bead carrying the image of a whale. I’d found it washed up on the beach close to the port city of Singapore, over the dune from Spookstad. It had struck me as out of place, even though the Great Lakes had its own giant: the sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), whose females could live for 150 years, growing to six feet in length.
She held the bead in her hand and looked down at it as if it was a note with small printing. “You found this?”
“Yes, on the shore. Is there something the matter?”
“No. It’s just…” She cleared her throat.
I felt my nose and my powerful arms. Inside, I didn’t feel like a man. I felt like Clementine, whoever she was.
“Tell me Clementine, what do you seek? I mean, what do you love? What do you need to know more about than anything else?”
I stood up, my legs clumsy and muscular. What was it I wanted from a life of science, besides the beauty of observation and the thrilling potential of discovery? One could, after all, look at many things and discover nothing at all.
“I wish to know the truth.”
The old woman rubbed her nose. “And if there is more than one truth?”
AUTHOR INFO
A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Catherine Haustein is a chemistry and English professor at Central College in Iowa. Her ancestors lived in the famous ghost town of Singapore on the shores of Lake Michigan. Natural Attraction is her first novel.
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