The Southern Roads series is typical Stephanie Bond. Enjoyable reading, characters you get to know and care about. It is fun to see how each brother changes from one book to another.I give them 3 stars, not because I think they are not well written or don't have compelling characters, but because the plots are, by design, light and predictable. Which is what we are looking for sometimes, right? Comfortable and comforting. Alicia head on over to Sweetness for an undercover report for her feminist column after reading about an ad seeking females in search of a new life and future mate. The column was placed by the town's leaders in hopes to get their all male population a little more evened out. Alicia meets the town's head leader, Marcus Armstrong. We learn that he is the eldest of three brothers, the youngest two have found their HEA in previous books. This book is third in the Southern Roads Trilogy. To complete her undercover façade, she borrows her mother's wardrobe and her mother's boyfriend's truck. She stops at a creek before entering the city entrance to wash up. unbeknownst to her She is not the only one by the creek. Marcus watches from the sidelines as she removes her t-shirt and bra. He is automatically hit with a wave of pure lust. He sees her again later when she enters the town's only diner, aptly named, The Diner. She intends to work at the establishment in hopes to get first account on people's stories and what brought them here in the first place. Marcus finds himself without a manager and hires her on the spot. He quickly learns that she is a lot of trouble. For one, she has a knack of accidentally starting fires. Two, he is finding hard to stop thinking about her. And three, She makes him feel things he hasn't felt before.Initially, she finds the women of the town complacent and that they are reverting to how women used to be in the fifties. She soon realizes that they were merely supporting their men while they worked on constructing the town. She realizes how special Marcus is and how much he actually cares for the town and those who reside in it. Alicia falls in love with him.The sex scenes are good, but not steamy. The on going jokes are cute: each of Marcus' brothers have a ringtone for their respective women. They once asked him if he needs help selecting his own ring tone for Alicia. Alicia found herself against a rattle snake, which Marcus pointed out it pretends to be one as a defense. Later she finds a scorpion in between her laundry. Marcus was very calm about it and she asks him if it's pretending to be a poisonous scorpion. One thing I found annoying was Kendall's tendency to parrot Porter's comments. Once was cool, but everytime they were together, was ott. Another annoying factor is the hero's denial of attraction during the entire story. Of course they have sex, but he doesn't initiate any intimacy between them until about three chapters remaining in the book. He was very cute about it too. I would have enjoyed reading more about the softer side of him.
Do You like book Baby, Don't Go (2011)?
love them all but this one was I liked the best.
—SkareSkool1
Very one dimensional. Could have been more.
—Nitzan
