Charming The Troublemaker by Pepper Basham

• Series: Mitchell's Crossroads
• Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: Bling! Romance (November 1, 2017)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1946016306
• ISBN-13: 978-1946016300

About the Book:

When Dr. Alex Murdock is demoted to a university in rural Virginia, the last thing he expects to find is a future. But country charm never looked as good as it did on Rainey Mitchell. 

Rainey Mitchell does not need a high-class flirt in her wounded world, but trouble and temptation wafts off the new professor as strong as his sandalwood-scented cologne. 

When circumstances thrust them together to save her tutoring clinic, can the troublemaker find the hero inside and encourage the reticent Rainey to open her heart again? My Thoughts:

I absolutely adore Pepper Basham's contemporary novels!  She has a wit about her that translates well in her writing, and she has the special, intangible something that makes characters pop off the page from the first paragraph.

Alex is a stuck-up snot at first, but watching Rainey wiggle under his skin was a delightful treat.  A rural Virginia college was not his dream, and when he assisted a colleague in the first novel of the Mitchell's Crossing series, Alex had no idea he'd end up in such a backwoods institution.

He quickly learns that this institution of higher learning is more than what he sees, and Rainey is instrumental in helping Alex see the beauty of the world around him.  Including Rainey.

But she's been burned by love and romance badly, and while Alex is handsome, intelligent and wears yummy cologne, Rainey is determined to keep her distance.

Especially to protect the person that means more to her than anyone else in the world.  But that person becomes the catalyst, the spark that ignites the potential of a future together.  Will the threatened loss of Rainey's tutoring clinic drive a wedge, or serve as a magnet, pulling their damaged hearts together to make a whole.

I've enjoyed all of Basham's novels, but her contemporary stories are my absolutely favorites.  I think you'll fall in love with Mitchell's Crossing!

Five out of five stars

Until the next page turns,

Deena