Kate had won an Emmy for a screenplay once, but it had been years before she wrote anything good, The sappy romance screenplays started to drain her. To get a fresh perspective, she went back home to Maple Valley, just after a tornado hit the area. // ex-NFL quarterback Colton had lost his love (who left him for someone else) and his career (after a major injury). In a deep funk, when his friend needs to go home to Maple Valley to help rebuild, and his agent told him to lay low, he decided to go as well. // Kate and Colton met, as both try to adjust to small-town life. But Kate is about playing it safe, while Colton was all about risks. Yet with both looking for new direction in life, Colton remembered that his agent told him to work on a memoir... and Kate is a writer. But there are moments in Colton's life that he had repressed for too long... and it is those old wounds that may prevent him from ever truly start over... and have a future with Kate...
More layered than first expected, the book also meanders a bit, with multiple B-plots, such as a child with cancer, a rebellious kid in school coached by Colton, Colton's background as a foster kid, Colton betrayed by ex-lover who apparently didn't really love him, Colton's conflict with his agent who keeps sending him to interview for sportscaster position, mixed with Colton's repressed PTSD memory. Kate wanted to write stuff with more meaning, wanted to apply for a position to write for an NGO in Africa, wanted to do stuff more like her mother would have wanted... The page count is just over 400 pages, which is pretty darn big. I think the book could use a bit of slimming down, but I like the characters well enough.
Category: Contemporary
Overall Rating: 4/5
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