This book comes out on June 10th and I was lucky enough to win a copy from her newsletter contest.
Ruthie is not only a fun person to follow on Twitter, she is becoming one of my favorite writers because of the seamless ways she finds to make her characters human...and hot! This is the third book in her Camelot series and is about newly-divorced baby sister Katie and Sean the stuttering hacker. I know....ever heard of a stuttering hero? Not me.
While Katie has been separated from her husband for awhile, she just recently went through the divorce. Now she all about not being a doormat and improving herself after the years she spent playing "helper" to her ex-husband. Since her older brother Caleb owns a security company, she decides that her empowerment needs to take the form of moving from office manager to bodyguard. I loved how Caleb equally supported her and was worried sick about her. He pairs her with Sean, a consultant who is helping Caleb with computer issues. What he does not know is that Sean spent the last 2 years of high school crushing on Katie. While Katie and Caleb's family dynamic is enviable, Sean's family is where the dysfunction is.
Sean's left Camelot and never looked back in order to get away from his mother. Ashamed of his stuttering, she refused to even consider speech therapy and told everyone that he had severe social anxiety. So Sean just stopped talking until he escaped with an older friend to college. They went on to have a successful Silicon Valley company. But when his mother dies, Sean has to come back and settle her affairs and gets...stuck. His stutter is back and he can't seem to get anything packed up at his mom's house.
The story is about how these two help and heal each other. There is also a secondary love story involving Judah, the rock star they are guarding. Things between Sean and Katie are HOT and unfold in a believable way. I love it when the hero falls in a book before the heroine does. Actually, Sean's stutter makes him even hotter when he finally starts talking to Katie. Before that, he communicates through texts and one hilarious note in a hotel lobby!
My favorite quote: "She felt grounded around him, soothed and appreciated in a way that she wasn't accustomed to." As someone happily married for almost 18 years, that is more important than anything!
I would recommend reading the series in order since previous characters show up later. Here are the links to her Amazon and BN pages
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/ruthie-knox
http://www.amazon.com/Ruthie-Knox/e/B0062BHO4Q/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1370186788&sr=8-2-ent
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