Tamara is a young widow raising two young children. She's finally ready to get back into the dating scene two years after loosing her race car driver husband in an accident on the track. She just wants to find an nice, ordinary man, but her first attempt is a disaster. Fortunately for her the experience isn't a total loss because it results in her meeting Elec. He's sweet, sexy, good to Tamara's kids and willing to take things at her pace. He's also seven years younger, a race car driver and the son of her father-in-law's worst enemy.
Tamara isn't sure she's ready for a serious relationship, especially with someone who is so different from what she thought she was looking for. Elec has issues of his own, including a crazy ex-girlfriend and a health problem he'd rather not talk about. They each have to decide if their relationship is just a fling, or something more.
This is a straight contemporary---no crimes, vampires, or over the top drama. It's simply a solid story about two likable people who meet, fall in love and have to overcome a few obstacles on the way to their HEA. Both Tamara and Elec's issues felt real to me without being too angsty. Erin McCarthy's writing has a light touch, even with fairly serious issues. For example, I was worried that Tamara was going to end up being one of those annoying martyr heroines, insisting on giving Elec up because her father-in-law hates his father. Instead she was simply a nice woman who didn't want to cause unnecessary pain to people she loved.
I was surprised at how quickly I was able to get this from the library. Our waiting lists sometimes take forever. Maybe it was fate, because this book broke a bad reading streak for me. After several books in a row that were blah, or worse, I really liked this one. There were a few small things that I could nit pick, but they didn't really detract from my enjoyment of the characters or the story so I give this one an A-.
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