Do You like book Billy Bob Walker Got Married (1993)?
I’ll say this right up front: Billy Bob Walker Got Married is out of print. A reader recommended it to me, and she was so convincing that I bought a used copy from Amazon. Go forth and do likewise! I’m not kidding—this is a wonderful romance, a keeper, one that made me happy for two days.It’s set in the South, and it’s the archetypal bad boy meets good girl story: but the long, luscious, fabulous length kind that we don’t find all that much anymore. Shiloh Pennington is the daughter of the richest man in her small southern town. Billy isn’t anybody’s child because he’s illegitimate, prone to trouble, and good for nothing. They have a tiny bit of a past between them, just enough so that when Shiloh has no one else to turn to she grabs a handful of bills, marches up to the jail where Billy is locked up (for a bar fight, natch) and makes him an offer he doesn’t refuse.Can’t, really.That’s just the start of the story. This is one of those novels that alternate between heartbreak and joy. Billy and Shiloh have serious obstacles, not the least of whom is Shiloh’s enraged father who will do anything to get her back. They’re young and wild, and yet serious too. The way they learn to be together reminded me of Love Story –but without the tragedy.
—Eloisa James
