Young Buck
Green Valley Heroes #5
by Kilby Blades
Fire Lieutenant Buck Rogers is Green Valley Fire Department’s newest recruit. He’s also renting the house next door to Loretta’s. When a mysterious family secret compels him to seek the talents of a private investigator, he calls in a friendly favor.
But keeping things neighborly isn’t easy. Not with Loretta spying on Buck’s chin-up routine through his open bedroom window. Not with Buck’s shameless flirting and beguiling blue eyes. Buck may be testing her resolve, but Loretta is testing his mettle. Can she get over the fact that he’s just so young? ‘Young Buck’ is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #5 in the Green Valley Heroes series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
“We were helping one of our members celebrate a personal life event.” Buck nodded. “I got that from the big pink bunting that said Happy Divorce and the balloons that said The End of an Error.”
I just don’t think I can hold out for Mr. Right. My biological clock isn’t just ticking. It’s sending up flares.
Cougars are fortysomething women who date twentysomething men. Fiftysomethings are sabertooths. You’re a thirtysomething, which makes you a puma.
My Review:
I adored this amusing and wily tale, it sparkled with clever wit. The characters were smartly etched yet authentic and endearing, I wouldn’t mind spending more time with them and hope to see them again on a return trip to this quirky community. Each story thread was entertaining, well-developed, and flowed with ease. Ms. Blade is a smooth storyteller and held my attention from beginning to end.
About the Author
Kilby Blades is a USA Today Bestselling author of Romance and Women’s Fiction. Her debut novel, Snapdragon, was a HOLT Medallion finalist, a Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize Semi-Finalist, and an IPPY Award medalist. Kilby was honored with an RSJ Emma Award for Best Debut Author in 2018 and has been lauded by critics for “easing feminism and equality into her novels” (IndieReader) and “writing characters who complement each other like a fine wine does a good meal” (Publisher’s Weekly).
During her career as a digital marketing executive, she moonlighted as a journalist, freelanced as a food, wine, and travel writer, and lived it up as an entertainment columnist. She has lived in five countries, visited more than twenty-five, and spends part of her year in her happy place in the Andes Mountains. Kilby is a feminist, an oenophile, a cinephile, a social-justice fighter, and above all else, a glutton for a good story. Follow her everywhere @kilbyblades.
