I haven’t read a Serena Bell book in years. I couldn’t believe it when I looked back and saw how long it had been because I really enjoyed the few books I had read by her. I often saw things about her Wilder Adventures series and kept meaning to pick those up, now I need to make that a priority.

Both Sonya and Quinn are wonderful characters. They come across as sunshine and grumpy at first, but Quinn is just a man of few words and is extremely uncomfortable with people he doesn’t know. He’d give anyone the shirt off his back and truly wants to make the world a better place. And Sonya’s sunshine is often masking pain. She is always the one who has to be responsible, ever since she was a young girl, and even with doing everything right she always got looked over and left behind.

It was fun watching these two circle each other. Neither was thrilled with the situation that forced them to work together, but they aren’t snippy or rude to each other once the dust settles and they know nobody is to blame for the situation other than a deceased old man. Yet there is a current between them so they do what they can to skirt around each other as much as possible. The times they are in each other’s orbit there is tons of chemistry.

I did feel the timeline of the story was off and that’s something that will always irk me in a book. I felt as though there were a lot of “a week later” and “it had been 4 days” type of language that just didn’t add up to the amount of time Quinn was required to stay and help at the salon.

I’m glad to be adding this author back into my rotation. Hopefully, I can find time for some of her previous books as well as this new series.

**I received an ARC of this book courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely**