Calder Brown's friend Owen Chase has just got married in the previous book, so Cal has to come back to Bliss, Montana to throw his buddy a post-facto bachelor party, leaving behind Vegas and the 6 wild weeks he had been spending there to avoid the annual Bliss Matchmaking Festival. Lisette Hart is only the caterer but when the girl who is supposed to jump out of the cake elopes at the last minute, Cal's grandfather Mac persuades her to help out for the sake of tradition. When Cal opens the wooden cake and sees Lisette, he's instantly hypnotised by her (no not really). He sticks around and helps her clean up after she serves the real cake and one thing leads to another and they get carried away by passion and make love on the kitchen floor.
Things are good until Cal realizes the condom (which he had been carrying in his wallet) broken. And then the next day Lisette figures out she's pregnant because she can't stand the smell of coffee. Of course, Cal wants to marry her but Lisette was burned by a man before (her ex-ish husband is now in jail for committing polygamy actually) so she's not so into it. So the two of them go round in circles with help from the town matchmakers, while Cal realizes that kids (particularly Lisette's two girls) and marriage aren't that scary.
So yeah, I know I said I would stop buying old Rolofson books, but I am clearly not succeeding. This one has some of the same issues as previous ones – short length (wide margins, spaced out font), characters who aren't fully developed (Lisette is a "Frenchwoman" but comes across more as Franco-American at best), and other stereotypical catergory romance issues. Like, haven't these people heard of emergency contraception or the fact that you should never ever store a condom in a wallet? Also, Cal is a described by various characters as sleeping with every woman in town (even the old lady matchmakers think that) but doesn't seem to run into a single woman he's slept with during the book. Anyway, while the plot mostly didn't work for me, I was able to get past it near the end when it became obvious that everyone seemed pretty happy. Still it was definitely not anything more than an average read.
