Celebration of the Modern Hermit. Celebration of the Modern Hermit. I love pumpkin seeds, but of course, I had no pumpkin. I wanted to be resourceful with my butternut squash, so I seasoned and toasted the seeds. They are a perfect snack, or you can sprinkle them on some greens.

Emily McCarthy is living in fear of a dark and dangerous past. A gifted mathematician, she is little more than a hollow, broken shell, trying desperately to make ends meet long enough to finish her degree. Through an unlikely friendship with the aging, cantankerous owner of an old boxing gym, Em is thrown into the path of the most dangerous man that she has ever met.

I received a free copy via Edelweiss for review purposes. WAIT FOR ME is a well-researched and well-written, albeit problematic, romance and historical fiction. It features a romance between a German POW and a Scottish farm-girl. When Paul Vogel, a conscripted German Nazi soldier, is sent to a Scottish farm as a POW, Lorna is disgusted to have an enemy soldier on her family farm, yet she soon falls in love with him.