Kris Calvert

This is one of my freebie books that I find at my local spot and later think, thank goodness I picked it up.

It's a sweet story. Womanizing, and bored with the turn his life is taking, Mac Callahan goes home to investigate the goings on at the "luxury retirement facility" (old folks home to us non-wealthy non-Southerners) where his mother is staying. (She is slowly losing her battle with Alzheimer's). The FBI are looking into this as cryptic messages have been received and once decoded are quite puzzling.

Samantha Patterson is a widow with a 3 yr old. Her husband was killed by a drunk driver before the birth of her so Dax. Her parents are globe trotting doctors with time for all children except their own. In the same facility as Mac's mama (Miss Nancy) lives her grandmother...Miss Mimi. Now Miss Mimi might be 98 yrs young but damn if she's not a spitfire. And you have to love a woman who has a treasure trove of Southern style one-liners.

Sam has recently started to work as a professional recruiter at the facility....in fact the day she meets Mac is the day she's hired. As she starts to settle in and learn exactly the parameters for doing her job she just gets stalled and has more and more questions....why, what and a whole lot of huh?

Mac is getting all his info from his cool sounding and no b.s. taking assistant Micha. There's sounds like a brother-sister relationship as they give each other guff but show a certain affection for one another. Stacy Little, and by the description she's is little, is the rude and petty sounding "personal assistant although the boss calls me his secretary". James Miller is Sam's boss and he just sounds...well let's just call him smarmy for lack of a better word. Miss Celia is the lady who takes care of Lone Oak, the Callahan plantation, and all the Callahan's. She is Mac's second mama and I love the fact that no matter what the conversation entails she calls him "baby". (Reminds me fondly of a Southern belle I know who called anyone she cared about a sweet nickname but for someone she truly loved, baby is what she called you. You would hear it and be filled with love.)

As the investigation goes on, slowly because Mac is distracted by Sam, Dax and feelings his never felt before (Oh yea, and crazy hot sex that neither one of them seems to be able to do without), Mac starts to think there is more here than meets the eye. Who is sending these e-mails? Where did this consultant company come from and who is behind it? All this on top of reliving the love story that is his parents while slowly and painfully coming to terms that he lost his father and now his mama is leaving him. On good days they talk and it's heartfelt....on the bad, you know he's crushed and doesn't know how to handle it. (I like the fact the author didn't hold back from keeping that real. So many times when dealing with Alzheimer's or just aging parents we tend to gloss over the hard facts of losing them sooner rather than later.)

Well in the end....Mac gets his bad guys. Sam thinks the worst, she's been used and everything he ever told her was lies. She sends him away and he, not knowing how to fix things, leaves. Now you know that's not how this ends for it's a romance and we have to have our HEA....but it's up to you to read it for yourself. It's a sweet story good for a lazy afternoon.

P.S. you're going to like the little surprises at the end. And yes, once he finds it he keeps that romantic streak all the way to the end.… (plus d'informations)

This novella is a quick and easy read that is fun and entertaining. Deliverance's extreme emotions causes her to blow in from town to town in search of the means to break the spell she unwittingly fell into more than 300 years prior by finally finding her one true love and defeating her nemesis. I sure hope this is only the beginning of a new series by Kris Calvert and I look forward to reading what's next for Dee the witch and the wacky paranormal residents now that she's landed in her new home town. And the final treat at the end of the book is the recipe for Kissy Cakes that may just have the magic necessary to cast a love spell on the person who eats it.… (plus d'informations)

This is the second in the series and while you can read this book as a stand-alone it is helpful to have read the first book Sex, Lies and Sweet Tea to get a feeling for the characters.
I LOVE the charcters in this book-Sweet as tea and a Steel magnolia Smantha, strong on the outside and a marshmallow on the inside FBI agent Mac and my personal favorite Mimi, Sam's grndmother, the original Steel Magnloia and feisty 99 year-old. I want a grandmother like Mimi.
Part of this story hits a little too close to home as I read about Mac and how he deals with his mother's Alzheimers disease since my own mother is in a facility for the same diagnoses.
Kris Calvert has done an amazing job of moving the story along with just enough tension and fear to keep you hanging in there. While there are some laughs in this book I found myseld tearing up in parts too.
I can't wait to read book 3.… (plus d'informations)