First line: “Molly Jennings stood frozen in dismay, staring over the tiny coffee section of the tiny Tumble Creek Market.”

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I threw this into my purse at the last minute before flying recently, just wanting something to grab at take-off and landing when I couldn’t work on my laptop. I expected the generic contemporary romance plot of girl gets guy, girl loses guy, girl gets guy back. But what I was pleasantly surprised about was Dahl’s writer’s voice. Full of snappy dialogue and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, this book was a lovely diversion that kept my attention enough that I never bothered to open up that laptop once I got into the book. 

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The plot is sort of amusing: a writer of erotica who has kept her occupation a secret from all who know her returns to her hometown after an ex-boyfriend with stalker tendencies just won’t stay out of her space. Yet he’s such a genial guy, somehow he manages to persuade anyone Molly dates to not only stop dating her, but to become his good friend. Insidious, yes. But dangerous? You’ll have to read on to find out.

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Molly’s hero is Ben Lawson, her brother’s best friend and chief of police in the one-horse Colorado mountain town, and it doesn’t take long for the pages to be steaming up with their hot-and-heavy affair, one she’d yearned for since her teen years when she’d walked in on Ben in a compromising position with another girl. 

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For: Anyone looking for fun, entertaining escapist read.-Jenny Gardiner