Archive for 'Sheriff'



REVIEW: Pitch Black by Susan Crandall

Dear Ms. Crandall:

book review You are a new to me author. I do love a good romantic suspense but I’ve often found the balance between the two to be somewhat lacking. Either the book has really good romance but the suspense is light or the suspense is very good but the romance is too light. In recent years, though, it seems that there has been a good collection of romance suspense authors who are striking the right balance and you are definitely one of them.

Madison Wade, a big city journalist, took in a foster boy Ethan at the age of 13. She decided that continuing to live in Philadelphia would endanger Ethan so they moved to a small southern town of Buckeye. (I actually have no idea where that is but I don’t think it is Ohio).

Sheriff Gabe Wyatt has been slowly but steadily pursuing Madison since her arrival. She’s been reluctant to do anything about the simmering low level attraction because of being a new single mom with a teenage boy to parent.

When a local and well known man takes Ethan and three other boys on a camping …

REVIEW: Naughty But Nice by Jill Shalvis

Dear Ms. Shalvis:

All this talk about RITA, RITA, RITA, got me to buy your June release, ShadowHawk, which I liked enough to head to my basement to my to be read shelves to see if I own any of your past Blazes. Alas, this was it. Fortunately for me, this was a good one. I wonder why I missed reading it the first time around?

Cassie Tremaine Montgomery is a good girl with all the bad girl trappings: the family history; the reputation; and the body. At 17, she’s endured 4 years of near constant ogling but she thought one guy in her town was decent and that was the Sheriff. Only on prom night, when she thinks she going to be saved from her drunk, grope happy date, Sheriff Taggart makes a creepy and inappropriate proposition. Cassie vows that someday she’ll come back, live on Lilac Hill, give the town a what-for, and get the Sheriff.

Cassie wasn’t really ready to come home but a stalker made New York a dangerous place for her. At the urging …