I love Sweet Spot! Susan Mallery has Nicole endearing herself to the reader after her witchey ways in Sweet Talk.
Nicole is the older fraternal twin by 2 minutes so she has always been the bossy one! After their mother's death while she was with Claire Nicole has had most of her mother's responsibilities--house to run, the bakery to work at and her little sister to raise so she feels she was cheated out of her teenage years and has blamed Claire for this and as we learned in Sweet Talk Claire didn't have any more to say about things than Nicole did--maybe their parents hadn't acted in THEIR children's best interests after all.
Nicole meets Hawk, former NFL player Eric Hawkins, after his star quarterback tries to grab and run but not pay for the boxes with the 5 dozen donuts that he has ordered. Hawk gets the call from the police about the incident and goes to try and talk the owner out of filing charges. The owner, Nicole, isn't so sure and isn't "sweet talked" into forgetting but is willing to give the boy, Raoul, a job. Raoul and Coach Hawkins, the hero, become very important to Nicole as the book progresses and Nicole becomes the focal point of Hawk's thoughts and Raoul's friendship.
Nicole is a great heroine that I liked but thought she was so hard on Claire in Sweet Talk but in Sweet Spot she becomes loveable <G> Hawk's a widower who coaches the high school football team. He has a 17 y.o. daughter, Brittany, who also has a big part in Hawk's world too, is it too big?
Nicole is in the process of getting a divorce from Drew, her BIL's stepbrother who she hadn't loved when she married him but this divorce is so hard. Of course she had found Drew in bed with someone so important to her it really hurt!
Such a group of characters to create this wonderful world of the Keyes is great fun to read. Nicole has grown up and has her HEA, Claire married and pregnant has her HEA and next we'll meet Jesse in Sweet Trouble in September. I'm sure Susan Mallery will give us a great story again.
