Roxie Callahan, private chef to the Bel Air elite, is
getting dessert ready for an impossibly fussy client when
her phone rings. The second time she gives up and
answers. It's her eccentric mother Trudy, who's been chosen for The
Amazing Race, and Roxie must come home to Bailey Falls New Yor, and run
the family diner in her absence. Roxie wants none of
that; she escaped her small town for Hollywood, but while
arguing with her mother, the dessert is ruined and Roxie
loses her job. She drives cross country, reaches her home
town and the dreaded diner, and meets the most gorgeous
farmer she has ever seen in a most memorable way! Leo
Maxwell sends Roxie reeling, literally, and this is the
start of a summer romance because Roxie is going back to
California in three months.
NUTS is a sweet romance with sexy bits and much humour,
as expected from the inimitable Alice Clayton. NUTS is
the first book in the new Hudson Valley series,
and certainly another successful series. From the hippy-
dippy mother, Polly, The Chad and The Logan -- and I hope
to read more about these two -- every character is
superbly fleshed out. I felt I was right there in that
small-town. I sat in that diner, and I could nearly smell
and taste all the glorious food! Everything played
out perfectly. Leo is just about as perfect as they come,
but realistically so. Roxie is klutzy but not too much.
Trudy is unconventional, but just enough. The writing is
snappy and fluid, the banter is priceless, and the
romance feels so right. What I loved most about NUTS,
aside from the fabulous characters, is that Leo and
Roxie's falling in love feels so natural. NUTS is a
perfect love story!
The New York Times bestselling author of Wallbanger and
Rusty Nailed is back with Nuts, the first in a brand new
series set in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley.Roxie
Callahan is a private chef to some of Hollywood’s
wealthiest, and nastiest, calorie-counting wives. After a
dairy disaster implodes her carefully crafted career in one
fell ploop, she finds herself back home in upstate New York,
bailing out her hippie mother and running the family diner.
When gorgeous local farmer Leo Maxwell delivers her a lovely
bunch of organic walnuts, Roxie wonders if a summer back
home isn’t such a bad idea after all. Leo is heavily
involved in the sustainable slow food movement, and he likes
to take his time. In all things. Roxie is determined to head
back to the west coast as soon as summer ends, but will the
pull of lazy fireflies and her very own Almanzo Wilder be
enough to keep her home for good? Salty. Spicy. Sweet. Nuts.
Go on, grab a handful.
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