I love Alice Clayton books. They are laugh-out-loud funny and bawdy and just fun to read. 
 Roxie Callahan left her small town in New York state behind years ago for the bright lights of L.A., but is forced to return to help out her mother. Roxie is a chef and working in her mother's diner is not what she had planned for her career. 
 That is until she meets local farmer Leo Maxwell. Roxie wants to make this a summer fling, but she becomes more involved than she wanted, both with Leo and the town. 
 The first half of the book was a little rough for me (I thought it could use some better editing), but by the second half I was fully on board with Roxie and Leo. They are an engaging couple and it was fun to follow their stories. This is the first in a series set in the Hudson Valley region of New York and I'm looking forward to the next books.