So imagine yourself getting ready for an internal exam by an obstetrician who also happens to be the man who loved you and left you pregnant 22 years ago. Now you must let him perform a procedure that would feel like a violation of your privacy no matter how professional and how impersonal the physician performing it. Other scenes did not work as well. One, early in the book, had Luke sharing not only Maddie s hotel room but also her bed long before they were ready to consider becoming intimate. The excuse given was that Luke was too exhausted and in too much pain from an old rodeo injury to drive home.
Hotels are in the bed rental business, after all.
While I know that readers already familiar with these characters are probably happy to renew their acquaintance, most of them are not fleshed out enough to interest a reader new to the series. The rest remained an undistinguished crowd. Riggs writes a competent, unobtrusive prose. I was particularly charmed by Luke s West Texas drawl and his Texan turns of phrase. These stylistic strengths, combined with a plot involving two characters with convincing obstacles to overcome, should guarantee the reader a pleasant reading experience.