Smartsville and Timbuctoo (California State Landmarks Nos. 321 and 320) are essentially one place with two names. As worked-out claims and floods forced placer forty-niners up from the sandbars into the hills above the Yuba River, and as word spread around the world about gold in the California hills, towns and communities formed. The Smartsville and Timbuctoo area was once the most populated place in eastern Yuba County. Black Bart, Jim "the Timbuctoo Terror" Webster, and other desperadoes haunted the local roads. Eventually fires, worked-out diggings, and the Sawyer Decision succeeded in driving out all but the most dedicated (and in some cases eccentric) residents. Neither town, though, is ready yet for the dustbin of history: the population might once again explode--this time not with gold seekers but with long-distance commuters, turning the former boomtowns into future bedroom communities.

Smartsville and Timbuctoo (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Smith, Kathleen

Parker, Lane

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

What happens when a woman falls in love with her stalker?I'm not the type of woman who actually inspires passion in any guy, much less one who makes it a habit to watch me because he's obsessed.I'm a curvy, plain Jane. I like my chips, chocolate, and junk food, and it definitely shows.I'm an educated geek who would rather have my nose in a computer instead of a fashion magazine.But none of those things seem to matter to Stalker. He sees something in me that I don't see in myself, and I don't know why.I'm terrified, yet I'm inexplicably intrigued.I'm cautious by nature, but something makes me want to know who he is, and why he gives a sh*t about somebody like me.I know falling for a man I've never seen in the light of day is dangerous.Does he stalk me because he wants to own me, control me, and make me into the woman he thinks that I am?Does he want to hurt me, or is he just a lost soul like me?And why did it feel so good to touch him under the cover of darkness?Is he my nightmare or my dearest stalker?Getting to know him might be foolish, but for some reason, I just can't walk away...Author's note: This is a red-hot, sexy, curvy girl serial romance with an obsessed, alpha male stalker. Read at your own risk.

Dearest Stalker: A Complete Collection

Romance

Scott, J.S.

Collections & Anthologies

Independently published

Smartsville and Timbuctoo

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

A sexy, moody, broody mountain man who only wants his solitude. A city woman trying to find herself in the backwoods. One horrible rock slide that leaves the two strangers stuck together...whether they want to be or not. I've been holed up in my crappy, one room cabin in the back country of Colorado for so long that I'm basically not even human anymore. And I'm not here because I have to be. I'm not some crazy prepper who thinks the apocalypse is coming, and I'm not running from the law. I'm just an artist who gets lost in the creation of my wood sculptures, and I'm alone because I like it this way. I do my best work when I'm separated from the rest of the world And for the most part, people suck, and there isn't anybody back in civilization who will ever notice that I'm not there anyway. I'm so far off the beaten path that it's rare for me to see another human at all, and I'm perfectly fine with that...until Keeley Norton comes crashing into my solitary life--literally. It isn't like I really want to rescue the woman and haul her back to my cabin. But I can't leave her on the side of the mountain injured, either. I might be a surly jerk, but even I can't be that heartless. Basically, I'm screwed in more ways than one. Luckily, she only has to be stuck with me for a few days. I can handle that, right? Even if I don't want her in my cabin, what can happen in forty-eight hours? Problem is, I didn't count on the way she makes me feel every time I look into her sexy, smoldering dark eyes. All I really want to do is nail her. Against the wall. Bent over my rickety table. Any time or any place is fine with me. And believe me, I fantasize about every single location as the hours tick by. My plan is to just ignore her until she can get back to her own place, but that idea isn't working out so well. Turns out, Keeley isn't a woman who is easily ignored. She's beautiful.She's sexy. She's smart. She's chatty -- which really should drive me crazy since I'm a guy of few words, but it grows on me. She's kind and not the type to judge -- even though she's a smart-mouthed city woman who doesn't have a clue how to survive in the backwoods. All in all, Keeley is way more dangerous to me than any four-legged predator in the woods. Simply put, she's exactly the kind of woman I need to avoid. And I try to keep my distance. I want to keep my secrets to myself, and the last thing I want is to be painfully pried open by a female who will be gone in a matter of a few days. I'm a master at avoiding complications, but Keeley is an unholy temptation that even a hardened loner like me might not be able to resist...

Lost: A Mountain Man Rescue Romance

Contemporary

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