I picked up this book at the ECWC book fair a couple of weeks ago. I had a couple of hours time to kill that Saturday before dinner and started to read it. It was all I could do to not contact the people I was going to dinner with and tell them to go without me.
I love mysteries and I love romance and this book blended both of those genres perfectly. This is part of a series that Ms. Cameron writes, and having never read the others, I did feel at times like I should know things about these people that I didn't.
Bleu Labeau has come to Toussaint, Louisiana to consult on the building of a new school at the local parish. The old school had burned down decades before and the growing parish was now able to support the students. When a man who supported her efforts to build the school is killed in the church, it's clear Bleu's life is in danger. Roche Savage is the local psychaitrist who is trying to keep Bleu safe even as he's falling in love with her.
I really enjoyed the mystery aspect of this book - the town is small enough that indeed everyone was a suspect, though the motive for not wanting this new school was never made very clear - neither was the old school's fire which you're lead to believe was not accidental but I felt like no explanation for who did it or why is ever really given. The romance between Roche and Bleu is hot to say the least - he's a man who enjoys sex and she's a woman who was once married to a man who made it clear a woman who enjoyed sex was just this side of a whore. It made for great conflict and tender scenes when the pair came together.
I would really like to read more of Ms. Cameron's books in this series - she's brings this area of the country to life with a cast of characters I'd love to spend more time with.
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