Meddling small towns make for a great, escapist read!
A
charming, cheerful romance about a young widow who discovers secrets about her
late husband as she carves out a new life.
Prolific
romance writer Melinda Curtis (the Mountain
Monroes and the Kissing
Test series) begins a lively rom-com series filled with a large cast of eccentric
characters, zany humor and a slew of clever plot twists.
In Can't Hurry Love,
Lola Williams is a 29-year-old who gave up a career in New York City doing hair
and make-up for high-powered Broadway celebrities in order to marry Randy and
relocate to his small hometown of Sunshine, Colo. After only a year of
marriage, Randy is killed in a car accident. Lola struggles as a young widow in
a town where everyone knows everyone else's business--except for Lola, who,
when she goes through her husband's belongings, discovers Randy was keeping
secrets. Was he cheating on her?
Upset and
angered by a string of unsettling revelations, she sets some of Randy's things
aflame in a bonfire that draws the Sunshine Valley Widows Club and also Sheriff
Drew Taylor, a divorcé and devoted father who's sworn off women. Sheriff Taylor
and the group of local widows come to the emotionally wounded Lola's rescue:
women of all ages, personalities and quirks; do-good fundraisers, gossips and
self-professed matchmakers with tales to tell. Lola then becomes determined to
solve the mystery of Randy. While on her quest, she starts to build a new life,
suddenly finding herself enmeshed in the fabric of busybody small-town living,
while also opening her heart again to love, however reluctantly.
Curtis weaves laugh-out-loud
comic scenes with heartfelt emotions, delivering an endearing, wholesome
romance.
Forever, $7.99 Mass Market Paperback,
9781538733417, 512 pages
Publication Date: March 31,
2020
NOTE: This review is a reprint and is being posted with
the permission of Shelf Awareness. To read this review on Shelf
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