Sex: Some kissing and very mild innuendo. Mentions of a young girl being forced into sex slavery and brutalized (she is eventually rescued and brought to a safe home). Violence: A few people get shot with arrows-no fatalities, but the descriptions are still moderately gory. Meanwhile, a spoiled young noblemen tries his best to derail their courtship for selfish reasons…and the trail of sinister activity in the worst parts of town leads back to Odette’s house… She’s the poacher, and she only does it so the beggar-children of Thornbeck don’t starve.

Jorgen and Odette meet at the village Midsummer’s Festival and hit it off immediately, but as they grow closer, Odette dreads the day that Jorgen finds out her secret. Recently there’s been poaching in the margrave’s forest again. Since then, every time Jorgen patrols the forest, he wonders if that poacher is still out there. He’s an orphan too, whose adoptive father was killed by a poacher in the forest when Jorgen was only a lad. Jorgen is the new warden on the margrave’s lands. Someone has to feed those kids, and the authorities don’t seem to care about them. But the young lady vividly remembers her childhood, and her efforts to help other children in her former situation take up most of her time. These days she lives with her wealthy uncle, and is considered the most eligible single woman in Thornbeck. Twenty-year-old Odette grew up a poor orphan. It just seemed to throw in some preaching at times that did not feel right with the story. One of my all time favorite books is Christian fiction, ( Redeeming Love) so that's not it. Now don't get me wrong I don't hate that type of book. I also did not realize when I requested this one that it should be billed as Christian fiction. This book could do well for a younger reader set and at first I liked it then.after all the boys started chasing Odette's milkshake. Jorgen meets Odette at a Midsummer Nights festival and they both are moony eyed over the other.

Then a new forester is appointed to guard the margrave's woods. She does not enjoy the killing but needs to feed the kiddies. She herself is now rich but was orphaned and had faced poverty before.

Odette takes her bow and arrow into the woods and slays for food for the town's poor children. I love stories that involve female's that don't just stand around.

The huntress of thornbeck forest