Cassidy is a deputy in the small town of Bootleg Springs... with her father as the sheriff. She always had a thing for her neighbor, Bowie Bodine, except he's always brotherly to her. Except there are no other candidates to date in the small town... and near town. When the cold case of the disappearance of Callie Kendall heated up again, Cassidy welcomed the work, until the detective on the case seems to be looking for clues of a murder... committed by Bowie's father, who disappeared a few days after Callie's disappearance, and is refusing to accept any evidence pointing elsewhere, as well as alienating the entire sheriff's department. // Bowie knows he can't have his little sister's best friend. He promised and he will keep that promise... But she lives right next door... and when Cassidy's investigation strikes a bit too close to home, he's stuck between telling Cassidy to back off (which affects her job), and his need to protect his family (his brothers and sister)... Until this situation changes one night, thanks to a stray bat...
I felt a bit... ambivalent about this book. The slow boil between Cassidy and Bowie is VERY good, but the Callie investigation, which was left as a cliffhanger, left me unsatisfied. It's clear the detective is looking to find a murder instead of evidence. Why was he assigned to the case, given his own backstory, is a question left unanswered. The book is also a bit too long at almost 400 pages.
Category: Contemporary
Overall Rating: 4/5
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