Serena Fanon has just moved home to Montana to live with her father and start her own law practice once she passes the bar. She had thought that she would stay in Washington DC (where she went to law school) forever and marry a fellow lawyer or a politician but instead she got involved with Edward and fell in love with him before learning he's married. Serena is hoping she passed the bar (it's not clear to me but I don't think she's ever practiced law) so she rents a law office where she can start her own practice. She's going to tell her cousin the good news when she sees a house fire and witnesses Travis “my friends call me Trav” Holden rushing into the burning building twice to save a mother and child. Serena goes up to Trav to thank him for his heroism and he starts coming onto her basically.
The next day there's a picture in the paper with Serena staring at him adoringly so Trav calls her up and asks her out (from her last time, he figures out who her father is based on a one time meeting a few years ago when he sold the guy a car). Serena says no but then she gets a call from Edward and changes her mind to show Edward she's over him or something. Trav is a used car salesman kinda trapped in the fictional 1950's or something, calling Serena “doll” etc. Serena isn't interested in him, but goes out with him anyway, and then when he becomes her first law client (he transfers ALL of his business to her even tho she's inexperienced basically because he has a crush on her) she sleeps with him. Yeah, smart move. Anyway for the rest of the book the two of them go back and forth between being involved, and eventually live HEA. (There's also a subplot/set up for the next book where Serena's mother might not be dead or something).
Anyway, I was not a fan of this book. I did not like Trav and I though Serena was senseless. She's never been a lawyer before but is opening a business with no captial. She thinks about getting a loan from her dad and doesn't want to ask him for money so her sister in law and cousin give her money instead (she's apparently never heard of a bank or business loan because before they come through she's thinking about asking Trav for the money!). Trav goes around telling people she's a lawyer before she's passed the bar and is confused when she gets upset. Trav and Serena go on a date and about 12 billion people stop at their table for up to 20 minutes each! Trav also tells Serena that whether or not she will sleep with him is debatable and thinks to himself “she's one sexy number and you'd like to take her to bed. It's probably what she needs anyway.” Oh and he has no home address for legal purposes but lives out of a luxury RV (I really wonder what the driver's license/voter registration people have to say about that).
Apart from all that the writing just didn't sit well with me. I felt there were needless details like when Serena has lunch with her cousin we are specifically told about Serena leaving the two dollar tip (she laid it next to her plate) before they got up, the cousin paid and they walk out (and the two dollars themselves pulled me out of the story wondering if this girl is just cheap or what!). I could probably go on but this is more than enough already. Not the book for me.
