The Diamond — KDMD-FM — has dazzle, in the independence it affords its newest on-air personality, Emily Erikson, and in the talent and stunning good looks of its program director and morning-drive announcer, Colin Michaels. The only thing he lacks is any kind of history that anyone knows; the only thing he wants is Emily, who’s so unlike the too many women who have too much to say about him in the resplendent mountain valley of Missoula, Montana. As smooth as his voice is rich, Colin turns on 100,000 watts of charisma to win her — and years of thinking fast on his feet to protect Emily from the sneaky maneuverings of a groupie who isn’t all he claims to be. Then Emily uncovers proof that it’s Colin who’s stealing from the station. When she doesn’t know who to believe, she has to believe God.
Spanky's Secret, Sherrie's most recent release, is her third novel and the first in what will be the Deviant Few Motorcycle Club series. With approximately seventy bylines to her credit in newspaper, magazines, and the forward in a book about off-road four-wheeling in Idaho, this time Sherrie also calls upon her history as an ol' lady in an outlaw motorcycle club with dozens of patch-holders in several chapters. She also rides her own motorcycle, a passion she discovered eighty-thousand miles and four bikes ago. She's always been something of an adventurer and risk-taker, landing a job on the air at her local radio station when she was only a senior in high school — barely old enough to qualify for her FCC license. It was a career that had her in the prime-time morning-drive slot on the largest billing FM signal on her end of the state when she retired from broadcasting. She also holds a BS in environmental regulations and hazardous waste management. Now, with her two sons grown — and two grandchildren as a bonus — these days she follows the weather and whimsy, writing full-time in a 21-foot travel trailer she pulls throughout the western United States behind her F-150. Sherrie is currently writing Maverick's story; he's the patch-holder who's also an attorney in Spanky's Secret.
This book was very good in my opinion and I really enjoyed it. It didn't shy away from the main things they struggled with; him with what happened to his brother 9 years earlier and her with dealing with her mother's death and feelings she had dealing with that. I do think it could have focused a bit more on developing Colin and Emily's relationship and maybe a bit less on interaction with the guy that called station when she was working. But that part did, I must admit, add a bit of drama to the story. Would have liked some kind of epilogue because I like epilogues. Although I'm not sure an epilogue would actually have worked in this story.
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I first read this book about ten years ago, and it's still vivid in my mind. Sherrie Lord has a gift for drawing a reader into a fun, romantic, heart-warming read.