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Wickham Falls Weddings #4
The Sheriff Of Wickham Falls
You can search the world over…
But sometimes love is right next door.
Deputy Sheriff Seth Collier is content to serve and protect the citizens of Wickham Falls…until the sexy ex-marine meets his new next-door neighbor. Dr. Natalia Hawkins left the big-city ER for a small-town practice. And while Seth is everything her nasty ex wasn’t…Natalia’s head says to leave him in the friend zone. But her heart says this may be a second chance at love.
But sometimes love is right next door.
Deputy Sheriff Seth Collier is content to serve and protect the citizens of Wickham Falls…until the sexy ex-marine meets his new next-door neighbor. Dr. Natalia Hawkins left the big-city ER for a small-town practice. And while Seth is everything her nasty ex wasn’t…Natalia’s head says to leave him in the friend zone. But her heart says this may be a second chance at love.
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First published August 20, 2018
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About the author
Rochelle Alers
220 books1,051 followersRochelle Alers was born in Manhattan, New York, USA, where she raised. She obtained degrees in Sociology and Psychology, before started to work. She is a member of the Iota Theta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., and her interests include gourmet cooking and traveling. She has traveled to countries in North, Central and South America, and Europe. She is also in accomplished in knitting, crocheting and needlepoint.
Published since 1988, today a full-time writer, has been hailed by readers and booksellers alike as one of today's most prolific and popular African-American authors of romance and women's fiction. With more than fifty titles and nearly two million copies of her novels in print, she is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists, regularly chosen by Black Expressions Book Club, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold Pen Award, the Emma Award, Vivian Stephens Award for Excellence in Romance Writing, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. She also wrote as Susan James and Rena McLeary.
Rochelle Alers lives in a charming hamlet on Long Island.
Published since 1988, today a full-time writer, has been hailed by readers and booksellers alike as one of today's most prolific and popular African-American authors of romance and women's fiction. With more than fifty titles and nearly two million copies of her novels in print, she is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists, regularly chosen by Black Expressions Book Club, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold Pen Award, the Emma Award, Vivian Stephens Award for Excellence in Romance Writing, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. She also wrote as Susan James and Rena McLeary.
Rochelle Alers lives in a charming hamlet on Long Island.
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February 24, 2019
Nope
I really liked where this book was going until halfway through for no reason at all the author chooses to talk about the perils of being overweight and how prescribed diet changes will just fix that right up. As someone with multiple chronic ailments that make it ridiculously easy to gain weight and incredibly difficult to lose it, I hear enough of that crap. Not everyone can be thin no matter how many salads they eat. I am a vegetarian with a strict exercise routine. And I am still a size 16. I don't need my pleasure reads fat shaming me. I get enough of that from literally everywhere else.
I really liked where this book was going until halfway through for no reason at all the author chooses to talk about the perils of being overweight and how prescribed diet changes will just fix that right up. As someone with multiple chronic ailments that make it ridiculously easy to gain weight and incredibly difficult to lose it, I hear enough of that crap. Not everyone can be thin no matter how many salads they eat. I am a vegetarian with a strict exercise routine. And I am still a size 16. I don't need my pleasure reads fat shaming me. I get enough of that from literally everywhere else.
January 25, 2023
Boring, very preachy, boring, the couple had zero chemistry, oh & did I mention, BORING?
January 30, 2024
I enjoyed how the main characters first developed a close, if somewhat flirty, friendship before then starting a romantic relationship. That allowed a lot of emphasis to be placed on their emotional connection, something I always appreciate. Alers did a good job including subplots around an abusive ex who used coercive control on Natalia and the very real opioid epidemic in West Virginia. A solid and fun contemporary romance.
As a random aside, there is one small detail that really bothered me. Seth, who is a deputy sheriff, follows a car that broke traffic rules. When he realizes that the offending car is going to get out of his jurisdiction, he decides to run it off the road??? What on earth??? Police abuse of power anyone? Surely that is not legal or acceptable practice? I know that later it is revealed that the car had fentanyl in its trunk, but Seth didn’t know that when he was originally following it for a relatively innocuous traffic violation, not enough to warrant his extreme actions. I mean, the crash is so bad that at first Seth thinks he might have accidentally killed the guy in the other car. What the fuck? Why is this in the story? We don’t need police abuse to be normalized. Besides, this scene isn’t even all that important to the overall story. It could have been easily cut out.
As a random aside, there is one small detail that really bothered me. Seth, who is a deputy sheriff, follows a car that broke traffic rules. When he realizes that the offending car is going to get out of his jurisdiction, he decides to run it off the road??? What on earth??? Police abuse of power anyone? Surely that is not legal or acceptable practice? I know that later it is revealed that the car had fentanyl in its trunk, but Seth didn’t know that when he was originally following it for a relatively innocuous traffic violation, not enough to warrant his extreme actions. I mean, the crash is so bad that at first Seth thinks he might have accidentally killed the guy in the other car. What the fuck? Why is this in the story? We don’t need police abuse to be normalized. Besides, this scene isn’t even all that important to the overall story. It could have been easily cut out.
September 2, 2018
Look inside your heart and allow love again
Seth and Natalia's story is what second chances are made of. You want to ensure that if ever a time you allowed yourself to be vulnerable and in love, that you do so with someone who accepts you for who you are.
Hence the relationship of Seth and Natalia. After experiencing heartbreak, it was important that the pace of Natalia and Seth's be slow and steady. One thing you appreciate is the physical was not the core.
Who doesn't love a good meal and laughs.
Not to mention Mya and Gile added the perspective of friendship support that puts forth a lens of acceptance.
Only reason I did not give this a five star rating is because the final chapter felt rushed. Otherwise a well developed story was composed.
Seth and Natalia's story is what second chances are made of. You want to ensure that if ever a time you allowed yourself to be vulnerable and in love, that you do so with someone who accepts you for who you are.
Hence the relationship of Seth and Natalia. After experiencing heartbreak, it was important that the pace of Natalia and Seth's be slow and steady. One thing you appreciate is the physical was not the core.
Who doesn't love a good meal and laughs.
Not to mention Mya and Gile added the perspective of friendship support that puts forth a lens of acceptance.
Only reason I did not give this a five star rating is because the final chapter felt rushed. Otherwise a well developed story was composed.
August 30, 2018
You can search the world over…But sometimes love is right next door. (Deputy Sheriff) Seth Collier is content to serve and protect the citizens of Wickham Falls…until the sexy ex-marine meets his new next-door neighbor. His ex-wife was 3 months pregnant, by his commanding officer, when he returned from a 6 month deployment. (Dr.) Natalia Hawkins left the big-city Philly ER for a small-town practice. Her ex stole her engagement ring and her dog before he broke things off with her.And while Seth is everything her nasty ex wasn’t, demanding and argumentative, vain and self-absorbed…Natalia’s head says to leave him in the friend zone. But her heart says this may be a second chance at real love.
August 6, 2019
Ex pain and distrust
He to the pain and lack of frustrated by exes Seth and Natali are cautious of the opposite gender. Starting out as friends things slowly grow into a more personal relationship. Seth knows he wants more, he wants forever. He also knows he needs to give Natali time and space to catch up. The appearance of Natali ex causes a problem that time and space and straight talk will fix. I loved getting to revisit Lily Wainwright. She is so sweet, cute, smart and funny. It would be nice to she her as an adult. All the Wickham Falls book have been a pleasure to read.
He to the pain and lack of frustrated by exes Seth and Natali are cautious of the opposite gender. Starting out as friends things slowly grow into a more personal relationship. Seth knows he wants more, he wants forever. He also knows he needs to give Natali time and space to catch up. The appearance of Natali ex causes a problem that time and space and straight talk will fix. I loved getting to revisit Lily Wainwright. She is so sweet, cute, smart and funny. It would be nice to she her as an adult. All the Wickham Falls book have been a pleasure to read.
September 7, 2018
Falling for Love
Another winner in the Wickham Falls series. The characters had depth and personality. I really like the fact that current issues of the day (drug abuse, looks epidemic, and grandparents raising grandkids) was covered in this romance. They helped draw the couple together. If you are looking for good reads in small-town settings this book and the others in the romantic series are for you.
Another winner in the Wickham Falls series. The characters had depth and personality. I really like the fact that current issues of the day (drug abuse, looks epidemic, and grandparents raising grandkids) was covered in this romance. They helped draw the couple together. If you are looking for good reads in small-town settings this book and the others in the romantic series are for you.
July 4, 2024
I've been reading pretty much whatever Rochelle writes and enjoy her writing. But this one didn't hit that spot. Slow start and boring to say the least. Almost put it down but was determined that it had to get better but it didn't.
January 16, 2025
As I have become accustomed reading the author's work, it has been entertaining! In the book of the series, she combined a beautiful romance with information about healthy living and the opioid crises and listed some fantastic ways to fight.
September 25, 2018
Rating 3.75 stars
Enjoyed the book
Enjoyed the book
September 27, 2018
Good Read
Good story. Short and straightforward. It had a good storyline of hurt and disappointment. Addressed issues that faced communities across the country.
Good story. Short and straightforward. It had a good storyline of hurt and disappointment. Addressed issues that faced communities across the country.
October 2, 2018
It was a great book! I enjoyed it!
December 10, 2018
The Wickham Fall series is amazing, I am enjoying the tribute to the Military.
May 15, 2019
Really enjoyed this book...
July 3, 2019
This was a cute and enjoyable small town romance. I enjoyed it very much.
March 12, 2020
Perfect read
February 1, 2025
Amazing
This book was great, I didn’t want it to end. The characters were will written and it held my attention. Eagerly awaiting the next book
This book was great, I didn’t want it to end. The characters were will written and it held my attention. Eagerly awaiting the next book
October 3, 2018
Very interesting story but was a great read
February 17, 2020
I began to snap up copies of recently published novels in Harlequin's Special Editions and Desire lines, including this entry by Rochelle Alers. A veteran romance writer with dozens of novels to her name, Alers writes a steamy, delicious story about a physician who relocates to a small town and the sheriff who captures her heart. I'm looking forward to the other books in her series.
October 10, 2020
This story embodies why I feel sad for those of y’all who date men and also my hesitancy toward hetero romance novels.
I really didn’t understand what the romantic connection was between these two aside from them being physically attracted to each other. I don’t get what the man added to the woman’s life that she couldn’t do herself or call a handyman for tbh. The emotional connection was never fleshed out, the author instead chose to reinforce again and again the two’s crappy former relationships and the significance of the decline in mining to rural Virginians (which like, sure- is important, but not what people are reading romance novels for).
The conflict also fell pretty flat in my opinion, though it was then explained that it was due to the mans self-proclaimed “false sense of masculine pride” or something to that effect, which was accurate.
Idk this overall just seemed very old-fashioned and also was law enforcement propaganda so this one wasn’t for me. Giving 2 stars because I did like the woman (even though she would randomly say things in a ‘whisper’ seemingly for no reason?) and there were a handful of moments when I chuckled out loud.
I really didn’t understand what the romantic connection was between these two aside from them being physically attracted to each other. I don’t get what the man added to the woman’s life that she couldn’t do herself or call a handyman for tbh. The emotional connection was never fleshed out, the author instead chose to reinforce again and again the two’s crappy former relationships and the significance of the decline in mining to rural Virginians (which like, sure- is important, but not what people are reading romance novels for).
The conflict also fell pretty flat in my opinion, though it was then explained that it was due to the mans self-proclaimed “false sense of masculine pride” or something to that effect, which was accurate.
Idk this overall just seemed very old-fashioned and also was law enforcement propaganda so this one wasn’t for me. Giving 2 stars because I did like the woman (even though she would randomly say things in a ‘whisper’ seemingly for no reason?) and there were a handful of moments when I chuckled out loud.
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