The First Law of Love

Wow. This book floored me. I wasn't expected the twists and turns that came along with the story line. I'm delighted to see that this is a series! and I'm ridiculously anxious to see where this story goes from here. The weaving of the past feelings wasn't something I was really feeling at first, but then it all started to fall together. Great read. Really enjoyed it.

This was a very pleasant story of Tish Gordon, a young woman on the fast track to being a lawyer at a top Chicago law firm. But first she must spend the summer in a small Montana town helping out a lawyer there fight a corporation that is seeking to buy up properties there to turn them into expensive vacation homes. The town is afraid that people will sell out because the town’s main employer has shut down and there aren’t many jobs to keep people in town. The town can’t survive with just wealthy vacationers coming in for a few weeks out of the year.

Tish enters eagerly into the battle and finds herself enjoying the small town life after the hectic years of law school. Plus there is the hunky cowboy/musician Case Spicer who met her years ago and told her that they were destined to be a forever couple. She’d rudely rejected him years ago, but now she completely falls for him.

The rest of the book is about the growing romance between Tish and Case, who seem to fall very quickly into a serious love affair, while Tish tries to help stave off the big, bad real estate corporation buying up property.

I enjoyed the story and Case. Tish seemed a bit dippy to me. First she was unnecessarily rude to Case when he bared his heart to her earlier. Now she meets him and she immediately becomes infatuated with him. I did like the way she fell into the community in this town and became a passionate advocate for the town’s interests. However, once the set-up was made, it dragged a bit in the middle, however. I think the book could have been just as good if it had been a bit shorter.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Great romance with lots of sexual tension between the two main characters. There is also a great story line and mystery within. It ends on a cliffhanger so I'm anxious to read the next installment!