Can't Hurry Love: Includes a bonus novella

Melinda Curtis

Mar 2020 · Sold by Forever

About this ebook

From a USA Today bestselling author comes a heartwarming romance about a city girl who finds herself widowed in a quirky small town and the new target of the town's relentless matchmaking Widows Club.
Head-over-heels in love, Lola Williams gave up everything to marry Randy, including a promising career in New York City. Now, after one year of marriage and one year of widowhood, Lola finds herself stranded in Sunshine, Colorado, reeling from the revelation that Randy had secrets she never could have imagined. She swears she's done with love forever but the matchmaking ladies of the Sunshine Valley Widows Club have different plans...

Sheriff Drew Taylor also knows what it feels like to be unlucky in love. So when Lola comes to him for help uncovering Randy's hidden life, Drew finds himself saying yes against his better judgment - especially with the Widows Club eyeing them both. Soon enough, Lola is upending Drew's peaceful, predictable world...and he kind of likes it! But will this big-city girl ever give her heart to a small-town guy again?

Includes the bonus novella "Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs" by Annie Rains!

Ratings and reviews

Lola has been widowed for nearly a year, Randy having been killed in an auto accident at the dangerous crossroads in town. She’s finally started to clear out his things when she comes upon a revelation: Randy had been unfaithful. VERY unfaithful if the nearly empty, extra-large box of condoms is any indication. Not being from Sunshine Valley, she’s only made one friend, and that one friend has been her constant. Of course, there are the women of the Sunshine Valley Widow’s Club who are inveterate matchmakers – and she’s also landed on their radar. Yet things are heating up: first with the small (or not so) bonfire she built in her driveway to burn Randy’s things, then the Sherriff coming to shut down both the fire and her newly hatched plan. She’s going to find out who Randy was seeing…then leave. Of course – nothing is quite so simple: Drew (the Sherriff) is also in the midst of a custody battle for his daughter – and needs a wife: a calm, non-threatening, biddable wife. Everything that Lola isn’t, and all of that makes her deliciously attractive: if it weren’t for the many calls he has to field over the blow-up dolls in her front window in various positions, the overeager nephew who is writing tickets (or jailing) everyone he catches, his sister and an overweight, anxious pig, the other sister who can’t seem to cover up in her search for Mr. Rebound after her divorce, or his need to be around Lola whenever possible. Laugh out loud, meddling neighbors, more conflicts borne of desperation and curiosity than is possibly necessary, Lola has, underneath the ‘city polish’ a heart of gold and is simply seeking answers before she leaves. It doesn’t hurt that she’s been brought into the mix with the widow’s club, or that her constantly changing blow up doll display is talk of the town, but her charming Drew’s daughter Becky with simple words and her honest searching for answers have everyone understanding her desires, even if they don’t agree. A lovely introduction to the town and it’s people, as secrets are uncovered, friendships renewed and new hope brought to many. I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.

This book starts a series that promises to be touching as well as entertaining. In this first story we have Lola Williams and Drew Taylor. Lola , a New Yorker and former Broadway make up artist left it all to follow her husband to the small town of Sunshine. A town she so wanted to be accepted into but is still struggling to be accepted. She was married one year, and now has been a widow for another one. As she starts cleaning her husband’s possessions she comes a cross evidence that he might have been unfaithful with not once , but multiple times. Drew is the local sheriff, divorced, with a precocious kindergarten age daughter, who is his life. When his ex shows up for the first time since she left him and the baby asking for custody rights, his world is turned upside down. While each is dealing with their personal problems, sparks start flying when a neighbor complains about Lola’s fire and then the window dressing. In addition to the relationship between Lola and Drew, you also have a couple of subplots. One focusing on the Widows Club who appear also to be matchmakers. This is a sweet, touching, clean romance that at times will make you laugh out loud, at others a tear or two will be shed. The bonus novella by Annie Rains is also very good. I was entrusted a copy of this book by Netgalley and Forever. The opinions expressed are solely my own.

I adore this small town of Sunshine, Colorado! The author has made me want to live there! She has created a town of fun, sometime quirky characters but yet they certainly care about each other. As with many small towns, sometimes they care too much and are in each other's business a little more than is comfortable! Although there is two main characters, lovely Lola and Sheriff Drew, there is also ongoing focus on a couple other stories so all these characters are interwoven in the fabric of Sunshine life! Lola is a transplant to Sunshine from New York City when she married her husband, Randy and now she's a widow but in cleaning out his belongings, she found he had a secret life and she's overcome with the need to find out all she can about this life....to the point that it disrupts the town! Sheriff Drew tries to get her to stop because he feels that it isn't healthy but that poor man has SO many people who depends on him to do things, it's a wonder he's even sane! I can't believe how much that man is burdened! Yikes! However, he's drawn to Lola and yet he can't be because he needs a nice, quiet girl because he's fighting for custody of this daughter! There is SO much funny stuff and yet a lot of tender happenings in the book too. A winner in my book! Can't wait to read more in the series!

About the author

Melinda Curtis is the USA Today bestselling author of light-hearted contemporary romance. In addition to her Sunshine Valley series from Forever, she's published independently and with Harlequin Heartwarming, including her book Dandelion Wishes, which is currently being made into a TV movie. She lives in California's hot central valley with her hot husband - her basketball-playing college sweetheart. While raising three kids, the couple did the soccer thing, the karate thing, the dance thing, the Little League thing and, of course, the basketball thing. Between books, Melinda spends time with her husband remodeling their home by swinging a hammer, grouting tile, and wielding a paintbrush with other family members.