"Sexy Cajun Hero"

Regan Hart is a tough, hard-working Los Angeles homicide detective, dedicated to her job. When too-good-looking Nate Callahan comes to town with his lazy smile, Regan shies away from him thinking him too handsome and a little too charming. Nate comes from a small town, Blue Bayou, in Louisiana and when he comes across some information concerning Regan, he decides to look her up. He informs her that her mother died thirty-one years ago in Blue Bayou under mysterious circumstances and that her aunt raised her. Could the woman she called mother really have been her aunt, the twin sister of the woman that died? Nate gives her some stock certificates worth a small fortune as well as a journal written by Linda Dale. She reads the journal and is not convinced until the last paragraph that tells about her favorite childhood toy. She takes a leave of absence and goes to Blue Bayou.

A young boy hitchhikes down a deserted road and is picked up by a truck driver. As they drive into town, there is an accident leaving the truck teetering over the water with downed power lines sizzling overhead. Regan and Nate rush to their aid risking their lives to save the two. Nate takes the tough fourteen-year-old under his wing.

Nate and Regan work together to find out what really happened to Linda Dale and if, in fact, she is really Regan's biological mother. As they follow clues, Regan meets the wonderful Callahan family and draws closer to the last bachelor in the family, the handsome and good-natured Nate.

Regan is a little hard to warm up to because she is not willing to be vulnerable so comes across as very cool but Nate, her counterpart, is warm and caring. What is more interesting and sexy than a Cajun man with charm up to his eyeballs? All of the Callahan family (from previous books by this author) show up to help the romance along and there is a certain telephone call that sizzles between the protagonists. The suspense takes second place to the hot romance in MAGNOLIA MOON as Regan finds that living in a small southern town isn't so bad after all. If you enjoy those good looking Cajun men, you won't want to miss reading about this one.

Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted April 10, 2003