Can two sworn enemies find true love?
When a prominent resident suggests opening a boutique in Hollow Creek, Montana, little does she know the distress it will cause. Distress for the owner’s spoiled niece, McKenna, who will assist with the shop, and distress for the new sheriff, Clayton Beringer, who finds sparring with McKenna more taxing than apprehending criminals.
McKenna Chapman would prefer to be anywhere but the backward and uncivilized town of Hollow Creek, Montana. She especially could do without that obnoxious, but handsome, Sheriff Beringer. For what type of lawman insists on traipsing into the boutique in search of criminals? Does he not know the first thing about proper etiquette?
As newly-elected sheriff of Hollow Creek, Clayton Beringer has two goals—to make his late father proud and to effectively serve the townsfolk. He knew he might have to capture dangerous criminals on the lam, but he never figured he would have to contend with an uppity, and unfortunately, beautiful, clerk at the boutique.
While unexpected circumstances draw McKenna and Clayton together and force them to realize their growing attraction to each other, evil threatens Hollow Creek. Will they come to terms with the fact that they love each other—while catching an outlaw in the process?
My review:
The last book I reviewed was also by this author, but in a different series. This is the second in a series, but can definitely be read as a stand alone.
Love In Store is a very entertaining - and at times humorous - read. Things start out on the wrong foot between the hero and heroine with the sheriff arresting McKenna for stealing from the new boutique in town, a big understanding on the sheriff's part. And things go downhill from there for a while, until McKenna admits to herself at one point that the sheriff wasn't quite as vexing as she had thought.
I liked both characters. A lot. Clayton was determined to be as good of a sheriff as his dad had been, and did his best to protect the town and keep order. McKenna moved away from her family to help better support her family who was in dire straits because of her father embezzling and going to prison.
I know it is fiction, but it was cool that Clayton asked McKenna's prisoner father for permission to court her, and than asked another question later.
There was more of a suspense element in this book than in some of Zeller's. There was a criminal up to no good in the town, and there were a few tense moments due to that.
Our heroine had to learn some lessons throughout the book, and change how she saw people she would have once considered beneath her, and change how she saw God.
McKenna and Clayton did get their happy ending, and this was a very enjoyable read.
Special thanks to the author for an advance copy of this novel. I was under no obligation to provide a review and the thoughts contained herein are my own.
About the author:
Penny Zeller is known for her heartfelt stories of faith-filled happily ever afters and her passion to impact lives for Christ through fiction. Her books feature tender romance, steady doses of humor, and memorable characters that stay with you long after the last page.
While she has had a love for writing since childhood, Penny began her adult writing career penning articles for national and regional publications on a wide variety of topics.
Today Penny is a multi-published author of over two dozen books and is also a fitness instructor, loves the outdoors, and is a flower gardening addict. In her spare time, she enjoys camping, hiking, kayaking, biking, birdwatching, reading, running, and playing volleyball.
Penny resides with her husband and two daughters in small-town America and loves to connect with her readers at her website at www.pennyzeller.com, her blog, www.pennyzeller.wordpress.com, and her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pennyzellerbooks where she posts faith, funnies, writing updates, and encouragement.
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