Review: 3.5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2013
Cole Grayson and Julie Kensington both grew up in Star Harbor. The Grayson brothers had a reputation as troublemaker growing up in Star Harbor. Nevertheless, girls swooned over the brothers. As a teen, Julie has always been focused and driven to make something of her future. But even back then it was Cole Grayson "who'd haunted her dreams".And now, Sheriff Cole Grayson and town doctor Julie Kensington cannot deny their attraction towards one another. Relationships aren't always perfect.  Cole on the surface is tough, rugged, and protective but underneath he has struggled with PTSD ever since returning from Afghanistan. Julie on the other hand keeps her heart guarded and is only focused on her work. The first 50% of the book sort of dragged for me. But once Cole and Julie decided to stop playing the cat and mouse game, the paced picked up. "Well over six feet tall, rakish grin, deep blue eyes and tousled black hair.....he was smoking hot". The Grayson gene just flows. Uh, yeah, how can someone keep resisting something like that? Julie tried, so hard but Cole was just pure machismo.It's nice that characters from the two previous books Deep Autumn Heat (Seb and Lexie) and Blaze of Winter (Theo and Avery) make an appearance in book 3. And of course there's always something exciting in the little town of Star Harbor. Cole and his federal agent brother Val Grayson are still in pursuit of the people using Star Harbor in a drug ring. But I guess that will have to wait until Val and Cameron's story Slow Summer Burn is released in August.Thank you Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept and Elisabeth Barrett for the manuscript of Long Simmering Spring.