This was a nice, pleasant read with a couple of funny parts. The reason I read Shannon Stacey is because sometimes I want something a little different than the hot and heavy romances, and this one fit nicely into the mood I was in. It's about Max and Tori. Max is a different kind of hero. While having the usual physical traits (tall, good-looking, etc.), personality-wise he was a geek. Not the secretly-alpha-male-under-the-glasses geek, but a bonafide geek who couldn't talk to women and was awkward in most social situations. 
 In the book, he's referred to as an "odd duck." He was such an odd duck that people in the town joked that he was a serial killer or filmed porn in his basement. Not exactly my cup of tea in real life or in books, but in the context of this story, it worked. I think it worked well, too, because despite being socially inept (and he was 35 years old, by the way!), Max had a sarcastic sense of humor. Seeing him through Tori's eyes also made him attractive. 
 Her personality, by the way, was the complete opposite of his. She was outgoing and friendly, and after watching him get shot down when he tried to strike up a conversation with a female at the diner where she worked, she offered to coach him to help him get a date and eventually find a wife. Their friendship started there, and slowly progressed to where you get to see them recognize their attraction to each other. 
 Max had made a list of all the attributes he wanted in a women, but after he developed feelings for Tori, he said one of the sweetest things in the story. "I made a new list to describe the kind of woman I'd fall in love with and it just said Tori." How sweet is that?