Sheri Marcoli (who is 26) lives in a cottage near the woods in Wolf Creek, Pennsylvania. She enjoys spending her days working at her store (the Roadside Stop) and spending time at home with her dog (Highway) and the animals in the forest that come and visit her yard. But lately, she has the feeling that she is being watched. A car has been following her. Her dog is barking at something/someone in the woods. When an attempt is made on Sheri’s life, detective Jimmy Carmani (who is 28) comes to her rescue. He stays over at her house and tries to get her constant protection. Jimmy finds himself attracted to Sheri, but she puts him off, telling him that he isn’t the right guy for her, or is he?

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I really liked Jimmy, he was so sweet and nice. He was abandoned as a baby and brought up in the foster care system. I liked how he was so protective of Sheri. (He even slept in a hammock, unknown to Sheri, outside her house so he could protect her from danger!)

Sheri was also abandoned as a child (by her mother, she never knew her father) and brought up by her kind Aunt Liz. (In this book, Aunt Liz is missing and there has been a search going on for her for months.) Sheri was attracted to Jimmy, but she seemed to have some childhood obsession that a tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed prince was going to, somehow, find her in her cottage and sweep her off her feet. Jimmy was dark-haired, dark-eyed, and not very tall, so she knew he wasn’t her prince. She seemed a bit naïve with these thoughts but she finally came to her senses before the book ended regarding Jimmy. Other than that, she was a sweet and likable heroine.

I found this to be a very entertaining read. I couldn’t wait to find out who the culprit was, there were so many characters/suspects to choose from! I also liked the Wolf Creek setting.

(This book is the third and last in a three-book “Men of Wolf Creek” series and can be read as a stand-alone.) ( )

Great book and conclusion to the trilogy. While I do wish that it would be continued with some of the other detectives! Sherri fought her attraction until the very end - thought she might run out and Kiss him and say he was her price that rescued her but sadly that's didn't happen. ( )

Good conclusion to the series. Sheri's aunt is still missing and everyone is starting to lose hope that they will find her. When Sheri gets the feeling that she's being watched and then is attacked, Jimmy makes it his job to be sure she's safe. He doesn't mind staying close to her as he's been drawn to her for several months.

I liked Jimmy a lot. He had a rough childhood growing up in foster care and always longing for love and a family of his own. He has come to the conclusion that he will never have it and devotes himself to his work instead. Working on the case of the missing aunt brings him into frequent contact with Sheri. Feeling that he's not really cut out for a relationship he offers her his friendship but soon discovers that he really wants more. By this time, though, he's heard all about her dream of the blond haired and blue eyed prince that she is looking for. I really felt bad for him with the way that he was falling so hard for Sheri and yet had to listen to her go on about the dream prince of hers. I thought he was a real sweetheart of a guy. He is there for her when she's scared. When she's attacked he takes care of her, sensing what she needs almost before she knows herself. I loved that he had the courage to tell her his feelings, and felt so bad for him when she rejected his claims of love.

Sheri irritated me through most of the book. She was so fixated on her childhood dream of her blue eyed blond prince who would simply show up out of the blue and sweep her off her feet. When she started having problems she had no trouble accepting help from Jimmy. She accepted his offer of friendship and enjoyed being with him, but couldn't see past her dream to the terrific man that he was. She was attracted to him but fought it because he didn't fit her ideal. I really hated the way that every time they gave in to their attraction she reiterated that he was all wrong for her. I really wanted to smack her when she rejected his profession of love. It took several people telling her what an unrealistic jerk she was being, then nearly dying for her to accept what her feelings really were.

I enjoyed the suspense part of the book quite a lot. In the previous books we'd get brief glimpses of what Liz was going through and the occasional glimpse into her captor's mind. As things started to escalate, the danger that both Liz and Sheri were in got worse. I could feel the detectives' frustration over the lack of clues and their worry as time went on with no progress. There were several possibilities of who it could be and I never got a sense of who it was until the end. ( )