Courting The Cop
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Publisher Description
Love can hook you before you know it…
Previously published by Samhain Publishing.
Abigail has bigger problems than adjusting to her role as owner of a yarn store she inherited from her aunt. Petty crime is hurting her business, plus that of all the other shops in the area.
When she spots a man stealing an orange from a neighboring store, she doesn’t hesitate to give chase—only to discover the man she’s just tackled to the ground is a cop.
Detective Brody Donovan is about to slap some cuffs on the woman decked out in a yarn costume, when his better sense prevails. Her apartment is the perfect place to set up a stakeout to catch the criminal who wounded his partner. Specifically, her bedroom.
The heat between them unexpectedly fries his concentration, though he can’t figure out why. She’s into ’50s nostalgia. He’s all about his job. She yearns for a man who will court her. He goes through women like tissues.
But when the criminal finally surfaces, Brody realizes too late that he’s dangerously close to losing the one woman he never thought he wanted.
Warning: Contains a commitment-phobic cop, stolen oranges and flirty aprons, and some heartfelt Shim Sham shimmying.
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Kwan (One Real Man) sets this too-pat but sweet contemporary in a generic American small town, where yarn store owner Abigail Brightwater is a one-woman force for restoring the decaying Main Street. Abigail is mortified when the shoplifter she tackles turns out to be undercover police officer Brody Donovan, who absentmindedly pocketed an orange while tailing a suspect. As Abigail is apologetically mending Brody's torn clothes, he realizes that her bedroom makes the perfect stakeout point for his current mission: capturing the man who shot his longtime partner. Abigail agrees that he can have access to her house until the criminal he's pursuing is caught. Before long, her store's knitting group is convinced that the two are a couple, an observation that quickly becomes the truth. As Brody attempts to juggle his feelings for Abigail with his commitment to the case that brought them together, Abigail tries to work out whether Brody fits into her life. The book starts off whimsical and is strengthened by Kwan's knack for creating realistic characters. Both Brody and Abigail's pasts create realistic emotional conflict on top of the stakeout. Turning points rely a bit too much on coincidence, but overall this is a solid, enjoyable romance.
