Review: Good story about second chances
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
There are a lot of interesting, and some quirky, characters in this story.  The story starts when Leah Taylor has someone banging on her door at 7:00 AM.  There she finds her very irate neighbor, Dr. Shane O’Grady, on her doorstop.  What can you expect when Leah’s dog Arnold has torn up Shane’s newspaper?  Then things get worse when Arnold falls in love with Shane’s champion bichon dog, Princess, and the two of them can’t stay away from each other.  Add to this, the fact that Leah has to earn a living while taking care of her 10-year-old son Sam, 6-year-old “genius” Joey and her grandfather, an inventor who manages to have “accidents with his experiments.”  Leah has had to move every year for the last five years because of her grandfather’s “accidents” or because Joey is too smart and just doesn’t fit in with other children.  As rocky as Leah and Shane’s relationship starts, they soon find they have feelings for each other, although they try to avoid them.  At first, neither one wants to make a commitment, but that quickly changes.  They see each other every day because of all the problems caused by Arnold and Princess, Leah’s sons, Leah’s grandfather (both his experiments and his involvement with Shane’s mother) and a nosy, not-so-nice, next-door neighbor who wants Leah and her family run out of town.  I thoroughly enjoyed the story, but would have liked less heated moments between Leah and Shane.  I’m not sure they went “all the way,” but if not, it was pretty close.  Very good story, though.  Margaret Daley is one of my favorite authors and I'm glad I was able to read this book.  I was given a complimentary copy of this book to read and review.