GRR Reviews Again, Alabama (Alabama Series Book 1) by Susan Sands

Again, Alabama is a pretty trope "coming home, maybe just for a while" contemporary romance that has been done dozens of times (I've personally read more than a few with very similar overall plot). However, there is a certain charm in the writing that raised it above the mediocre.

Cammie is back in Alabama to help her mom because she had surgery. Not that she had much to do after her celebrity TV chef career blew up in her face when her host got too close to an open flame and blamed her for the hair fiasco. But her family summoned her under false pretenses. Their historic home and catering business are falling apart, and the man they hired to fix up the house was the man who broke her heart 10 years ago, prompting her to move to New England. But Grey is now a widower with a young daughter. Free to pursue Cammie, Grey had to work past Cammie's denial and his own daughter's passive-aggressiveness. When Cammie was offered her own TV show, will she be staying or leaving?

While the plot was pedestrian, there's a certain charm in the descriptions and the people and the additional complications introduced (such as the vengeful TV host) to make the overall result above average.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Disgraced celebrity TV chef had to go home to help her mom; found man who broke her heart 10 years ago is now a widower with a daughter... and working on her family estate

Tropes: reunion, return, widower, single parent, performer, chef, evil enemies

Overall Rating:  4/5