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Detective Frankie Daniels loves her job with the Atlanta Police Department, but after a romance with the wrong man goes bad, she finds herself being “transferred” to Purdyville, South Carolina. Everything that Frankie has ever worked for is gone in a blink of an eye.
Thinking that all she has to do is move into her rental and start her job, Frankie does not foresee how anything worse could happen to her. That is until she arrives in town, to find her rental house in flames. How could something like this happen in such a hick town? A town that barely even registers on the crime scale.
Frankie couldn’t take it anymore, so she chews out the first local she sees. The only problem is the annoyingly gorgeous and smug man turns out to be her boss, Sheriff Matt Webber. Matt Webber is very intrigued by his new deputy. He can tell that life in this town is going to get more interesting while Frankie Daniels is there.
All Frankie wanted to do is stick out her assignment until she can find something better, but as crimes start popping up around town, Frankie gets pulled further and further into the town and the lives of people who live there. Keeping herself separate from getting involved in the town helped Frankie to keep her vulnerability and fears hidden under her tough exterior. Frankie finds that living and working in Purdyville makes it hard to keep her feelings hidden especially with Matt inserting him into every part of her life. Matt senses that there is more to Frankie under that tough exterior and sets out to help Frankie see that she belongs right here in Purdyville with him.
From the beginning to the end, I loved Frankie Daniels, from her tough attitude to the vulnerability that she tried so hard to suppress. The way Charlotte Hughes developed Frankie emotionally throughout the book was so well written that I felt as though I was going through the same roller coaster ride. Having Matt Webber, a self assured tough guy who isn’t afraid of showing his emotions, try to infuse himself into every aspect of Frankie’s life was just another level of emotional turmoil that Frankie had to work through.
Charlotte Hughes does such a great job of intertwining humor and intrigue through the book that you don’t get distracted from Frankie’s emotional development to her relationship with Matt and the people of Purdyville.
Thao Dinh, August 2002
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