The storyline is girl from small town in Texas marries a count and eight years later, divorces the count. She returns to her home town to rebuild her life and, of course, meets her true love whom she will resist until nearly the end. Formula romance. Maybe.
This author has a message that she wants to deliver about girls and women valuing themselves and knowing what they want in life. She doesn't want them to buy into the myth of the "knight in shining armor"
In the book, Lacey is recovering from such a "knight" who turned the happily ever after into a control-your-life event. She struggles to discover what she wants to do which causes a lot of tension around her. She is fortunate to have caring parents and meets such a good man. Although the message is about women making their own decisions, finding their own way, not depending on a man for happiness, Lacey and Will end the book with a kiss that I'm not convinced isn't her Prince Charming 2.
I would have liked to see her without a true love at the end. Maybe she could meet one in book 2 or 3. Maybe the next book could have a more ordinary looking heroine as well.
This is a very sanitary romance: Kissing only.
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