Groomer and pet rescuer Shay Michaels is a softie... She cannot stand by if an animal is in distress, no matter how many laws she had to break, including fostering too many at her place. That brings her into conflict with Deputy Jonah Daudouin, there to enforce the law. Shay trusted the wrong person once and got burned, badly, and prefers dealing with animals than humans. Jonah wanted a chance to be sheriff and that means he can't get involved with a lawbreaker like Shay, no matter how good-hearted she is. But keeping up with Shay becomes a full-time job... And when someone wanted to run Shay out of town, Jonah may be her only ally...
Shay is so "ends justifies the means" kinda girl it's a wonder how did she manage to survive, much less live in St. Helena, in the middle of Napa wine country. Pairing her up with the straight-laced uptight deputy is fine, but that's basically putting up two self-righteous people against each other, and sparks gonna fly, and it may not be the sexy kind.
The ending incident/climax that saw the FMC Shay in legal trouble (i.e. darkest hour) just sounds so... ridiculously trivial that it's like a smear campaign, and the ending wasn't even much of a grand gesture, but just "oh, I solved it for you, let's happily live ever after." That's... annoying. To summarize, lots of plot if a bit ridiculous, characters are shallow, darkest hour seems to be about trivial stuff, and ending is tell, not show, I'm a bit underwhelmed.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Pet rescuer and minor scofflaw meets sexy deputy with eye on sheriff's post; neither will give in, but they can make out like crazy... right?
Overall Rating: 3/5
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