The Best Kind of Trouble
Lauren Dane
Harlequin HQN, Aug 26 2014, $7.99
ISBN 9780373779345
In Hood River, Oregon librarian Natalie Clayton stops at Common Grounds
for coffee on her way to work when Sweet Hollow Ranch rocker Paddy Hurley arrives
in need of caffeine. Before even turning
around, Natalie identifies by the voice a man she shared two weeks of
love-making a lifetime ago. When Paddy
sees her he recognizes her mouth from the greatest two weeks of his life. She denies being the tattooed pixie who
worked at a dive in Portland; as she muses to herself that was a different
Natalie.
Every morning when Natalie stops for her coffee, Paddy greets her
by asking her to go out with him. Though
she declines he refuses to quit asking.
After consistent rejections, Paddy erodes some of her resistance and
Natalie agrees to go on a date. As they
fall in love, Paddy knows he must somehow break down the remaining protective
barriers Natalie constructed as a means to escape her ugly childhood, but errs
in his efforts.
The first Hurley Brothers romance is an engaging second chance at
love romance starring two to nice protagonists.
The leads come from polar opposite types of families in which his nicely
supports him and hers, especially daddy dearest, mostly trashes her; the
townsfolk particularly her roommate Tuesday
Eastwood have become her surrogate loving “family”. Although the storyline follows the most obvious
path, The Best Kind
of Trouble is falling in love.
Harriet Klausner
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