Greg has had a crush on tough, resourceful Sue since high school, but getting close to her has proven impossible. She spends so much time dealing with her alcoholic parents that the first chance Greg gets to talk to her is when he’s serving her with foreclosure papers. If he can find a way to keep her from losing her family’s farm, maybe she’ll learn to like him.
But Sue doesn’t believe Greg could care about her. Either he pities her, which is humiliating, or he wants to get into her pants, which is disgusting. If she could just find someone who would love her for who she was and not what she could do for them.
desperate circumstances, friendly neighbors, and wet varnish
Born in Northeast Ohio, Christa has lived on four different continents (including both sides of Asia)and traveled extensively. She has an extremely elaborate fantasy life and has been known to forget that the bands she made up don't exist to the extent that she has shopped for their albums on iTunes.
Saving Sue, my fourth read from author Christa Maurice and the follow-up to Redeeming Johnny (part of The Weaver’s Circle series). Christa Maurice in just 4 books has become one of my favorite authors, in fact I went out & bought Mistletoe Kisses just because it’s the only place to get her book Celebrating Flora. Saving Sue was extremely well written, the characters, well developed. I’m a character reader, I get into the characters. Who and what they are. Why they do the things they do. The things that make a reader get invested into the characters and thereby the book and this book has it all including *(spoiler) a HEA ending that brought tears to my eyes! Again, this book was a little steamier than her first book I read, but that’s ok.
A surprisingly engaging story about a woman finding her own place in the world and the small town that helps her. And of corse the love interest that just wants to help but gets misunderstood. Sue has lived her life in the shadow of her parents' problem. She thinks others only see the bad, but by the end of the story she realizes the townspeople are her friends and just want to support her in her new endeavors. Greg does stuff for her behind the scenes which leads to a misunderstanding, but in the end, love wins!
Of all the people in Weaver's Circle, Sue is the one who most needed a happy ending. After years of taking care of her alcoholic parents, it was her time to have someone take care of her. Greg did the right things for the right reasons, but I still think someone should have asked Sue what she wanted. Glad in the end, she got just that.
This is a beautiful story of how one man recruits the help of people from their small town in order to help out the woman he has had a crush on since high school. I can't wait to read about the other people in Weaver's Circle.