My Take in Brief: If you hate the First Amendment, you will love this book!
Acquisition note: This is a Harlequin that just came out. I got it on the $.50 charity table at my market. Woohoo! Excerpt here.
Heroine and Hero: Rural Snow Mountain, Washington cop Brody Taggert is dealing with the death of his brother 6 years ago and the impending loss of his dog to cancer. He doesn’t like Christmas and is in no mood for love. Lila Grainger, a.k.a. Miss L. Toe, moved to Snow Mountain to open a Christmas shop and get away from memories of a stalker. She’s more in the mood for love.
Plot: Snow Mountain’s town council has decided not to fund their annual Christmas display on Main Street in favor of buying a police cruiser. Lila decides to spearhead the effort to “Save Christmas in Snow Mountain.” Lila, the niece of Brody’s boss, and Brody are attracted to each other right away, but Brody fights it.
Distinctive feature: Longest synonym for fart ever in a Harlequin: “a sound like air being released from a balloon.”
The Racy Romance Review: I was joking about the First Amendment, although I did find it highly amusing that I was reading this book the same week Washington was in the news because the governor allowed some atheists to put up a sign near the Christmas displays in the capitol. Then some mayhem ensued, prompting the Democrat governor and Republican AG to issue the following statement:
The U.S. Supreme Court has been consistent and clear that, under the Constitution’s First Amendment, once government admits one religious display or viewpoint onto public property, it may not discriminate against the content of other displays, including the viewpoints of nonbelievers.
