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During the pandemic, my husband and I were isolated in Yuma, Arizona, located in the dry, dusty Sonoran Desert. I’d always hoped to retire in Port Townsend, Washington, next to the ocean with easy access to lush, mossy forests, but my husband’s happiness was my priority, and he’s a sun worshiper. He’d had a rough time health-wise, having survived a major stroke that left his right side paralyzed and made communication difficult. I’d already written a few drafts of The Silent Woodsman, which was inspired by a dream that combined two news stories from 2018. One concerned an illegal cabin found deep in the Olympic National Park and the other, a woman who wandered into the forest to scatter her husband’s ashes and got lost. Being in my characters’ world became the ultimate escape during these dark times. That’s why there are five books in the Olympic Peninsula series.
My life has been a wild ride. Before becoming a publisher and editor, I was a classical singer, an Equity actress, a coordinator at Newsweek magazine, a legal secretary, a voice teacher at Shoreline CC, a receptionist at a major recording studio, a cater-waiter with Glorious Foods, a restaurant hostess, a member of an opera quartet, and a coat-check girl at a fancy New York nightclub.
My undergraduate degree was in German Literature. I also have a Master of Music in Vocal Performance and a certificate in Technical Writing and Editing.
Reviewed by Ammaarah Seboa for Readers' Favorite
Having undergone vocal surgery to save his voice, country singer Joe Bob Blade decides he should recuperate in the mystically beautiful Hoh Rain Forest, where he meets his very own babe in the woods in the form of Ali. Mary Alice, or Ali, finds herself soaked to the bone on Joe’s doorstep after a sudden downpour. With nothing but a notepad to communicate with, the two build this undeniable connection with one another. Back in civilization their time spent together seems like a dream neither wants to forget. The Silent Woodsman: The Olympic Peninsula series Book 1 by Cat Treadgold is such a beautiful and heartbreaking story that embodies the meaning of right-person-wrong-time.
Cat Treadgold created a beautiful and intricately woven story with just the right amount of reality. Having gone through a similar situation to Joe, Treadgold has shared a very personal and vulnerable part of herself with this story. Although written in the third person, I loved that the story was told from both Joe’s and Ali’s perspectives. The Silent Woodsman is a slow-burn romance set in the late ’90s. The moderate pace at which it evolved gave me time to focus on the character development of both Joe and Ali. Treadgold didn’t just attach them at the hip after that first encounter; instead, she shows us that life goes on and if it’s meant to be it will happen. I know that this is a work of fiction, but the sense of reality and the obstacles they had to overcome are what made me love their story.
