The main character in the story is Roxie. When we first meet Roxie, she is a personal chef to many rich people out in California, including a famous Hollywood married couple, that I believe are the characters in the author’s Redhead series. When she has a mishap with one of her snotty clients, and then said client puts in a bad word with all her other clients, except for the Hollywood couple, Roxie’s whole personal chef business seems to be over. Roxie’s mother has asked her to come back home to a small town in upstate New York and run the family diner while her mother gets to go be a contestant on The Amazing Race. Roxie does not want to do it, she is tired of bailing out her irresponsible hippie mother, but doesn’t seem to have anything else she can do at this point. So, she does go home to help her mother out. Once in town she meets the new guy who runs a local farm, Leo Maxwell. And from the first moment she meets him, her clumsiness causes the two to end up in very embarrassing positions as she knocks the two of them over. But the sexual attraction is there, and while Roxie knows she doesn’t want anything more than sex, as that is all she really wants since growing up dealing with her mother’s many heartbreaks. Plus, Roxie fully intends to go back to California when her time taking care of the diner for her mother is over. Leo seems to agree, and be on board with it. And let me tell you, once they get together, the sex is hot!

Things I loved: the author mentioning that Kansas City has the best BBQ, the innuendos, Roxie’s fear of bees – bees are assholes, and that Roxie was in love with Almanzo from Little House on the Prairie (me too). The only thing I wasn’t a fan of was the narrator occasionally read in a way that seemed very slow, in parts that I was eager to move along through to get to more exciting parts.

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.