GRR Reviews Carry Me Home (Paradise, Idaho Book 1) by Rosalind James

Carry Me Home is a romantic suspense story that involved a stalker, a student, a new professor, and a hunky cowboy who's also rich. The beginning of the book was kinda weird as it did NOT center on the professor, the FMC, but rather on the student, who's really a secondary character. That made the book rather weird to read in the first chapters. Once the stalker turned his attention to the professor, the plot moved along properly.

To recap... Professor Zoe Santangelo is teaching in a small Idaho University as a stepping stone for the big times... Stanford, for example. That'd be like going home. She didn't count on spinning her car out on the icy roads, or for the hot, hunky cowboy named Cal Jackson who came to her rescue. But Cal was a lot more than he seems... He actually retired from NFL after injury and came home to work on the family farm. He's tired of city girls who only wanted his money, and Zoe was smart, sassy, and tough, and someone he could spend more time with. When Zoe's attempt to get justice and help for her student who was almost raped near campus, Zoe became the latest target of the same stalker/rapist, and the guy was definitely on campus. Sheriff's department, campus police, and even military OSI joined the investigation as the stalker and attempted rapist seems to be ex-military. Cal was willing to deal out some personal justice to protect Zoe... but if Zoe was leaving... should Cal even care?

The beginning, as I said, started off WITHOUT the FMC or the MMC. The resolution was pretty darn tense, as there were various red herrings thrown around. And the big fight was just that... a big fight. And it worked great. If the beginning made more sense I'd given it 5/5.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: New Professor In Quiet University Became Target of a Stalker and Gained Love of a Cowboy and Ex-NFL Guy

Tropes: protector, woman in peril, stalker

Overall Rating: 4/5