Just like with Love in a Snow Storm, it's the characters that make this book so great. York does a fabulous job with their motivation, history, and interactions - letting us get to know them as they get to know each other, being there with them as they fall in love and watching them have ups & downs. I love how real her characters and their issues feel.

Zander is absolutely fantastic, with an amazing amount of patience and understanding, but also a fun sense of humor - I absolutely love him from their first meeting. He's always there to support Faith & Eric and he totally keeps his head each time that Faith gets scared, probably from that crazy Minelli family of his as well as his military training. Faith is having a little bit of a tough transition (York does such a great job of making sure we understand why), so she does a lot of dancing around her relationship with Zander. But he's such a sweet-heart in a bad boy's body that she has no hope of resisting :)

I think these everyday romances - where you feel like the people are friends and that their problems could be anyone's problems - are my favorites. They are just so ... well, real. And York is good at delivering on that with great characters that you can relate to, a good deal of humor to have you smiling and just that right amount of heat to make it spicy!

(Complimentary copy provided in exchange for an honest review)