Things just got hotter in Texas. Award-winning author Ann Everett returns with another sizzling Bluebird, Texas romance. Sometimes it takes losing everything… True Shanahan must be the unluckiest woman in the world. Either that or she’s cursed. After another failed relationship, True leaves Dallas with a broken heart and new attitude. It’s time to walk on the wild side. But when she makes a wrong turn and ends up in Bluebird, Texas, the only man she wants is anything but reckless. …to find all you’ve ever wanted. Ritter Malone is the town’s favorite son and has the local hero awards to prove it. Seems he’s always in the right place at the right time. But when he crosses paths with True, his life takes a turn he never sees coming. Her songwriting skills may be questionable, but her ability to turn him inside out is indisputable. Welcome to Bluebird, Texas. Where a chance meeting gives two people a chance at love.
True and Ritter’s romance is a blueprint for love gone awry. True’s been battered by love and she is running from the latest debacle when she lands in Bluebird, Texas. Ritter is her reluctant hero, talked into a situation he wasn’t comfortable with. Down to the bone not comfortable with… Too bad True makes it so easy to believe the lie…
“Who the hell are you?” “I’m the girl of your dreams. You just don’t know it yet.”
I’m not usually a fan of the premise of this story, I usually shy away from a trope that generally has me eye-rolling through the fakeness. That wasn’t the case here. With family surrounding them, in the thick of things and supporting the fake scenario they built around her, True and Ritter spun their circumstances in a way that kept my attention all the way through. They were funny and awkward. Realistic in unreal circumstances. Even as the hits kept coming they argued and talked – and loved - their way through it.
Their story may have dragged in spots (it is a really long read) but I pushed through and the reward was worth it. An ending with feels from all sides, this family-centric romance will have me visiting Bluebird again. There is, after all, some unfinished sibling business…