B M Bower

Cabin Fever (Illustrated) B M Bower

Bud used to be a cowboy but when we first meet him he is a driver/mechanic and has been married for a year to Marie, one of the passengers he once drove into the mountains. They knew each other for three weeks before they married, and now they have a one-month old baby. Neither of them were ready for their new life, and having Marie's mother butting in all the time didn't help. So there was a big fight one morning, and Bud stomped off to town. He decided he would teach Marie a lesson, and stayed away until very late that night. But meanwhile Marie decided she would teach Bud a lesson: she packed up and took the baby to her mother's house, in secret hopes (according to Bower) that Bud would go there and apologize. Didn't happen, Bud was too stubborn and got too angry when he saw Marie was gone. They go through a messy divorce, and that is the last we hear of Marie for quite some time. We follow Bud on his adventures into the desert, where he meets up with an old prospector and learns about mining for gold. But there is always a romantic happy ending in Bower's books, right? Will this one be any different? Will Bud ever feel like himself again? And what in the world ever happened to that baby of his? And Marie?