GRR Reviews Mad About Matt (A Red Maple Falls Nove by Theresa Paolo

Mad About Matt is a second chance romance that couldn't quite decide whether it wants to be romantic suspense or not. There was also a bit of talk about sex that doesn't quite fit the mood.

Shay Michaels is back in Red Maple Falls after seventeen years and opened the Sweet Dreams Bakery. She does not want to talk about the time she spent in New York... ever, not even to Matt Hayes, the local sheriff... whose heart she broke when she left seventeen years ago. But when a break-in ended up with her bakery trashed, and her cupcakes needed for next day ruined, she refused to treat the break-in seriously, even though Matt can see she's worried. Had trouble followed her to Red Maple Falls from New York? Matt is determined to protect her when Shay is determined to keep Matt away, figuring she does not deserve him...

I find the evil was way too sociopathic and thus, not really understandable. But the way old secrets are revealed was pretty good. All in all, average.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Woman returned to her hometown to open a bakery, and her first love, now the local sheriff; did trouble follow her home?

Tropes: protector, woman in peril, law enforcement, bakery, small town, reunion, return

Overall Rating:  3/5