LuAnn McLane Dark Roots and Cowboy Boots

Dark Roots and Cowboy Boots

LuAnn McLane

Signet, Aug 2006, $6.99

ISBN: 0451218922

In Hootertown, Kentucky, Jamie Lee owns Cut & Curl; her best friend Macy McCoy works there so when the place is empty they share their dreams. Both are stunned when Hollywood producer Parker Carrington arrives to check the town out as a potential locale for a horror film. Parker and Jamie enjoy lunch until Griff Sheldon arrives. He is angry to see Jamie with another man, but he treats her like his kid sister. Jamie has never forgotten how she threw herself at him when she was seventeen, but he rejected her. Later Jamie and Parker cruise around the town while enjoying each other's company.

After a game of softball, Parker and Jamie arrive at her house and begin to make love, but she has no protection so they reluctantly stop. He leaves, but a drunken Griff arrives at Jamie's house. They start to make love until he falls asleep. She is irate that he reminded her how much she loves him, but he remains unattainable. After another hot and bothered incident Jamie vows that Griff's boots will be under her bed tonight. Griff offers to make love with her so she can get him out of her system. She tells him she loves him, but no more will she throw herself at him.

The use of down home humor especially in potentially erotic situations adds fun to a fine regional romance starring an amiable lead couple and a strong support cast though Griff's behavior becomes boorish after a while. Readers who enjoy an amusing semi-erotic tale with plenty of slapstick in your pants humor will enjoy Jamie's plight. Hopefully LuAnn McLane will follow up with Macy's so far unrequited efforts to gain the love of Jamie's brother Luke.

Harriet Klausner