The Simple Wild

Calla Fletcher was two years old when her mother fled the remote Alaskan bush, taking Calla with her to the comfort of city life in Toronto. Twenty-four years later, Calla is a polished, phone-obsessed city girl who barely remembers the father she left behind. Then she learns that Wren Fletcher — the bush pilot who stayed — is dying, and she boards a plane back to the subarctic frontier town where she was born, determined to make peace before it is too late.

Nothing about Alaska is what Calla expects. The town is rough and unglamorous, the winters brutal, and her father as reserved as the landscape. Worse, there is Jonah — the gruff, bearded pilot who works for Wren and takes obvious pleasure in needling Calla for being too soft and too spoiled for a place like this. She is just as determined to prove him wrong, and somewhere between the clashes, an unexpected connection begins to grow.

The first book in K.A. Tucker's Wild series, The Simple Wild is a warm, emotional contemporary romance about a fractured family, a father and daughter running out of time, and the slow, stubborn pull between two people who could not seem more different.