I really liked this one! Part of what I loved is that the female main character was a romance author, I loved all her research, both Googling, visiting places like Alaska, and then getting help from her new friend, Sammy. Hastings is our main character’s name, and it was a little fun when Sammy gave her the nickname of Hasty, because it was the same name as a character in another book I read recently.

Now Hastings has Tourette Syndrome, a mild form of it, but it was definitely an interesting way to learn more about something that really most people only know a few things about. It seemed like she had pretty much done so many things with her life, gone to school to become a nurse, and there were other things I forget now, but she also was a successful romance author, and she was kind of the landlord for the “Cop Row” of townhomes that so many of the characters in other books in this series live in.

Another thing I often like about this author’s books is that you can have characters that have good home lives and still get the drama in the story. As someone who grew up with a pretty good life, it is nice to sometimes see my own type of family in stories. The drama for these characters really came from the people around them, and so that was definitely something that kept me from being too irritated with anything like I often am in romance stories. Not that Sammy and Hastings didn’t occasionally get a little stubborn, but they were able to figure things out much quicker than just putting things off for the sake of drama.

The end of the book is very sad, even if there does turn out to be an HEA when it is all said and done. Another great book from Lani Lynn Vale. It actually even inspired me to really get back to writing my own romance books and to just do it and see how it goes. There were some parts where Hastings talked about not having a real editor before she published and now I know I have to think of those things too!

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.