For some reason, this is the second series that I have come across in the past month that has been written about my hometown. I must say I am quite excited about this small fact. Reading about books that are written in a place that I know like the back of my hand, makes everything about this book so much more vivid to me as I am reading it. It’s like I can picture exactly what everything is and not have to “imagine” it, you know? Aside from that tiny detail, there are so many reasons as to why this book just did it for me.

Lexi. She reminds me so much of me that it’s just a little bit uncanny. Here you have this amazing strong women who is so driven in her quest to create this life so different from her past, that she doesn’t realize she is letting her past run her present. In an effort to move on, she has go go back and face the biggest, most horrible thing that happened to her, which could also put her right in harms way. Along for the ride just happens to be the one man her heart can’t forget about, Josh Cooper.

Josh is pretty amazing in his own right. Being the body guard to her sisters famous husband means that Lexi sees alot of him. Josh knows his heart wants Lexi, but having been told that she doesn’t want to settle down with a family, his heart also knows that Lexi is off limits if he has any hopes of getting married and raising kids again. Of course, the heart wants what the heart wants and after some amazingly awesome “adult time” – you really can’t keep emotions in check.

Watching the two of them battle their inner demons as well as the outer ones had me rooting for them as well as wanting to give them both a good swift kick! The flow of this story was perfect. I honestly didn’t see some of the twist coming, but they fit right in with the way the book was going. I laughed an awful lot with this book – but I must admit that it made me tear up just a little bit too. Then again, most good books do! Josh and Lexi pull at your heart strings in this one, but you just can’t help being on their team!

Aside from those two, this book had family dynamic out the ying yang. I LOVED Josh’s twin boys. I about died laughing every time one of them opened their mouths. Talk about mature for their age! I can only hope my daughter has that kind of smarts when she is 16! Sheesh! You will not be disappointed in this book and I cannot wait for the 3rd installment! ( )