Small-town handywoman and amputee Hazel Lee is a longtime friend of fellow Dry Creek resident, the elderly George. When George takes a fall and breaks his hip, his business executive niece Imogen must fly in to take him home from the hospital. Neither count on Uncle George to engage in some meddlesome behavior to push them together, and neither count on it working.

First off, I want to give kudos to Cheyenne Blue for how thoughtfully she wrote Hazel’s life as an amputee. There was obvious care (and a boatload of research) behind it, and it shows. I am one to be easily taken out of a story when there are inaccuracies in how certain life experiences are represented, but I was able to be fully immersed in this book. Thank you for how dedicated you were to Hazel.

I love a good supporting cast, and I think this book had some fun ones. I wish we saw more of Mavis so we could also poke fun at George’s dating life, but Chip and George were a delight. I appreciated that we gave George the respect and bodily autonomy he deserved while dealing with the nasty bits of overnight care and nursing.

As for the romance: it certainly was there, and I did enjoy it, but I really just did not find myself moved by this book. I think there wasn’t enough energy invested in creating a believable romantic chemistry between the two main characters after

the initial suspicion that Hazel was trying to defraud Uncle George, and I think that belief also went on long enough to thoroughly disabuse me of the notion that they had a foundation of trust in their relationship.

  I just can’t see it, but if I turn my brain off and let them have fun and have sex, I liked this book.

All in all, I think if you’re looking for a fluffy sapphic romance with limb difference representation and a fun old man as the best friend, this is it, but it isn’t anything hard hitting. Not that queer romance always needs to be hard hitting! But this does not offer the complexity I find fulfilling in a story.

Thank you to YLVA Publishing and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.