EVERYTHING CHANGES

A meet-cute between a civil engineer and a land developer leads to a charming love story overlaid on a quest to clear the engineer of bribery charges.

Grace Hudson, a civil engineer for the city of Santa Clarita, California, is very good at her job. She’s strong and typically confident, but in this third book in the Creek Canyon series, that confidence has taken a knock and she hasn’t dated for six months. When she spots Dameon Locke across the hotel gardens at her brother’s wedding, the attraction is immediate. Sparks fly at their second chance meeting the next morning at a coffee shop as well, but then it turns out that Dameon is the land developer for the newest project that Grace has been assigned at work. Starting a romantic relationship with a client is a terrible idea, Grace knows, but their interest in each other is undeniable. When a meeting with another landowner goes poorly and Grace calls Dameon for help, their relationship—and the need to clear Grace’s name from bribery accusations—kicks off. Grace’s close relationships with her brothers, their partners, and her parents play a large part in the book, and Dameon must prove his good intentions to her family. The sexual tension between Grace and Dameon is deliciously drawn out, and their relationship is wrapped up in a very satisfying way by the end of the volume. Readers will have to take coincidences on faith, and bad-guy motivations are left entirely unexplained, but neither truly detracts from the frothy fun of the love story at the center of this cozy romantic thriller.

This sweet, sexy book is just the escapism many people are looking for right now.