Review: A clean sweet story.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2012
Jake McKoy is a famous writer. He's had several books on the best sellers lists and has made billions with his series of suspense novels. After the tragic death of his wife three years ago, Jake seem to have lost his passion for writing. He buys a run down farm house in the middle of nowhere, with hopes that being in a secluded place will inspire him to write again, but so far there's been no such luck. He decides to go down into the basement to grab a sell help book, hoping that maybe that will help cure his writer's block. On his way down the stairs, he notices his basement is filling up with water. He sees a small leak in a pipe above him, but nothing that would cause that much flooding.So he heads back upstairs and calls the first plumbing company he sees, which also advertises as a home decorating company. The woman on the phone tells him he's sending Sam right out to his house.When the truck pulls up in the driveway, Sam is the last person he would have expected. You see...Sam had turned out to be Samantha. A very tiny and very gorgeous looking woman. He was very skeptical at first, but he was really surprised to find that the woman really knew her stuff. In less than a few hours time, not only did she fix the two leaks, but she'd pumped the whole basement dry, too.As they headed back upstairs, Sam notices the man hadn't done a thing to this run down farm house, but says nothing. She did however; offer to help him remove all the soggy soiled furniture and what not from his basement in the morning. He agrees, and she tells him she'll be back there by ten in the morning to help. Only when she gets to the shop early that morning, her step-mother, Meg informs her that Jack had already called the office, and said that he'd had already had everything hauled out of the basement and taken away the night before. Meg also told her that Jack said he'd like to talk to her about helping him redecorate the house. And if she wanted the job, that she should still come over at the same time they had already agreed upon.While they both become very attracted to one another, they both have a few major  things to work out between them, before they could ever even think about acting on those feelings. Things like...Sam was engaged to be married to a lawyer a year ago, but her fiance walked out on her a week before the wedding, and what's worse...he'd married another woman. Not only did he marry another woman, but they used all the things that they had order for their wedding, including their theme song. But that's not even the half of it.....when he broke off their engagement and wedding plans, he'd told her point blank that she would have never have been good enough for him anyway.. So Sam is feeling very depressed and very inferior when it come to any man right now, and even more so when she finds out Jake is a famous writer that's worth millions. If she wasn't good enough for a lawyer, she sure in the heck wasn't good enough for a billionaire.Jake is still trying to get over the loss of his wife. He blames himself for her death that happened three years ago, because they were arguing and he took his eyes off the road long enough to hit a van that had stopped right in front of them. His wife wasn't wearing her seat belt at the time, and her head had hit the windshield hard enough to put her into a coma, which she never came out of. So now he's afraid to let anyone get close to him. Jake feels living his life in seclusion for the rest of his life, is his punishment enough for killing his wife. Yet not one single person has ever blamed him for his wife's death, no one but himself.Will they work through their problems, and find a way to heal each others broken hearts?Would I recommend this book? Yes. Although I only gave it a 4 star rating, because I would have loved to see an epilogue.