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Sheriff Keir’s Memorial Day weekend starts with the early morning drive to the office, but before he can get there he has to stop to get gas. He daydreams of coffee, and not just any coffee but fancy coffee from Audra’s Place and most specifically from Audra herself. His dreams are suddenly interrupted by a loud boom from the rear of the convenience store. He rushes in and finds the owner’s teenage grandson in charge and already spraying down the area with a fire extinguisher. Keir ran around to the back to see what else was on fire. He found a dumpster still ablaze. After getting the fire out, Keir searched the site and found a thin trip wire attached to the back door. He followed the wire and found what looked like it had been an incendiary pack. What a horrible way to start the summer tourist season. Keir’s first thought is the foster teenager, Chad, who had a history of fire setting. How can he acquire Chad’s whereabouts for this morning without causing undue suspicion for Chad? He comes up with a brilliant plan. He will go visit Audra’s Place since she lives in the floor above Chad.
Audra is a single mom with plans for the future to better her life for her daughter, Evie. Audra opened the coffee shop with great plans for the tourist season. Evie, seven years old, decides she’s not too young to do anything and wants to help in the shop. While Audra isn’t looking Evie clears a table and drops the tray full of dishes, before she can clean it up to her surprise her seventeen year old sister, Megan, shows up on the first day. Audra doesn’t have a good relationship with her mother or her sister and knows trouble must soon be following. In the evenings, Audra turns her coffee shop into a pizza shop. From 5-9 PM she does carry out pizza from scratch. Brent, her evening help, and her cousin helps her daily. Chad shows up and Brent and Chad start bickering. They can’t seem to share the same space without an argument erupting.
As the book goes on Audra is amazed at how Sheriff Keir takes time to make Evie feel special and how close she grows to him. Can Sheriff Keir
figure out whose is the serial arsonist?
This book kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t put it down. I loved how Audra and Keir make God the center of their relationship. They way they put their relationship aside until the time was right and wouldn’t interfere or harm anyone in the process. This left me longing for the next book in the series.
Reviewed by Kristy Pelletier
for The Road to Romance
December 18, 2006
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