Review: Loved Graham and Belle!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
Graham Tyler grew up in a small town where everybody knows everything about everybody.  Once he became of age, he fled the small town with a quickness to see what else the world had to offer.  After a wild and crazy time, he straightened up and joined the Navy, eventually becoming a Navy SEAL.  His younger brother quickly followed suit by joining the Navy and was killed in combat leaving behind a young wife and newborn son.  Graham did the honorable thing by leaving the service and returning home to help care for his deceased brother’s wife and child, Kelly and Trevor.  Now he is the police chief of the small town of Buck Falls, Michigan.Belle Black was raised in the circus life.  It is all she knew.  Her family had founded and ran the Black Shadow Circus for generations.  Her mother passed away when she was a young girl leaving her to be raised by her father.  When she turned 18, she dreamed of a bigger life than that of the circus.  She left and started her own life.  Belle worked hard and was successful.  She had her own place and was co-owner of a tattoo parlor.  Then tragedy struck when her father died and was forced back into the circus life.  Belle was struggling to keep her family’s legacy afloat due to the extreme amount of debt her father left for her to handle.Pulling into the small town, the circus was going to do a weekend’s worth of performances to help raise funds to hold them over for the winter season.  Graham’s father, the mayor, was not happy with the intrusion of circus folk in his humble town.  To appease his father, the police chief decides to check it out and assure him that one weekend of circus performers will not cause havoc.Belle and Graham’s first introduction didn’t go over well and continued on a roller coaster ride after that.  They were immediately attracted to each other but Belle knew all too well that people from the circus and townies did not mix.  She was only there for a few days and knew nothing would come from her attraction to Graham, but that didn’t stop the magnetic pull that they felt for one another.Circumstances changed causing Belle and the circus to stick around longer than planned.  Graham and Belle had to address the elephant in the room (or rather the elephant found running loose in the town-seriously there was an elephant in the town that didn’t belong to Belle’s circus).  Will temptation become too strong when Graham and Belle are faced with more time together?  Read to find out!  I loved this book.  It was such a great read.  I was entranced and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to finish it.  There is danger, suspense, romance, evil twists and turns, clowns with rubber noses, and lots of fun!  I definitely would recommend this book to a friend.