"Nuts, sugar snaps, and bees make for great summer lovin'"

By: Alice Clayton

Genres: Romance Erotica Sensual | Romance Contemporary

Posted: October 16, 2015

Roxie Callahan, private chef to the Bel Air elite, is getting dessert ready for an impossibly fussy client when her phone rings. The second time she gives up and answers. It's her eccentric mother Trudy, who's been chosen for The Amazing Race, and Roxie must come home to Bailey Falls New Yor, and run the family diner in her absence. Roxie wants none of that; she escaped her small town for Hollywood, but while arguing with her mother, the dessert is ruined and Roxie loses her job. She drives cross country, reaches her home town and the dreaded diner, and meets the most gorgeous farmer she has ever seen in a most memorable way! Leo Maxwell sends Roxie reeling, literally, and this is the start of a summer romance because Roxie is going back to California in three months.

NUTS is a sweet romance with sexy bits and much humour, as expected from the inimitable Alice Clayton. NUTS is the first book in the new Hudson Valley series, and certainly another successful series. From the hippy- dippy mother, Polly, The Chad and The Logan -- and I hope to read more about these two -- every character is superbly fleshed out. I felt I was right there in that small-town. I sat in that diner, and I could nearly smell and taste all the glorious food! Everything played out perfectly. Leo is just about as perfect as they come, but realistically so. Roxie is klutzy but not too much. Trudy is unconventional, but just enough. The writing is snappy and fluid, the banter is priceless, and the romance feels so right. What I loved most about NUTS, aside from the fabulous characters, is that Leo and Roxie's falling in love feels so natural. NUTS is a perfect love story!

Book Summary

The New York Times bestselling author of Wallbanger and Rusty Nailed is back with Nuts, the first in a brand new series set in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley.Roxie Callahan is a private chef to some of Hollywood’s wealthiest, and nastiest, calorie-counting wives. After a dairy disaster implodes her carefully crafted career in one fell ploop, she finds herself back home in upstate New York, bailing out her hippie mother and running the family diner.

When gorgeous local farmer Leo Maxwell delivers her a lovely bunch of organic walnuts, Roxie wonders if a summer back home isn’t such a bad idea after all. Leo is heavily involved in the sustainable slow food movement, and he likes to take his time. In all things. Roxie is determined to head back to the west coast as soon as summer ends, but will the pull of lazy fireflies and her very own Almanzo Wilder be enough to keep her home for good? Salty. Spicy. Sweet. Nuts. Go on, grab a handful.

Nuts by Alice Clayton

Nuts

by: Alice Clayton

Hudson Valley #1

Gallery Books
November 1, 2015
On Sale: October 20, 2015
Featuring: Roxie; Leo Maxwell
ISBN: 1501118137
EAN: 9781501118135
Kindle: B00UDCHYCM
Paperback / e-Book

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