The Irresistible Spark
by Abby Tyler
She started the blaze. The firefighter fanned the flame.
Abby Tyler welcomes you to the witty, well-meaning busybodies of Applebottom, Missouri, where the community takes its pies -- and its matchmaking -- very seriously.
Lorelei Spencer is over that loser who wasted the last few years of her life, and she’s going to prove it.
After she's had enough mourning and midnight rage-crying, Lorelei dumps all the clothes, stuffed animals, notes, and mementos from the relationship on her front lawn. Then, she sets the pile ablaze.
It feels great.
Until it catches the grass on fire, too.
Volunteer firefighter Micah Livingston arrives on the scene and handily douses the blaze. But the fire he puts out sparks a new one in his heart when he realizes this feisty woman with a zeal for life might be exactly what he's been looking for.
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Favorite Quotes:
This was the sort of terrible, stupid thing that she’d been known
for doing in high school. She would have thought that she’d have gained some
common sense in the past six years. But no, when she got upset, it was as
though all her brain cells flew out her ears.
“Gertrude here found out her blood pressure was a little high, and
now she’s sure she’s going to have a stroke any minute.” “Don’t make fun of the
dying,” Gertrude snapped.
Come on in out of the cold. And I don’t mean the weather. The
frost coming off Gertrude could freeze a bull.
Abby
Tyler’s special brand of clever levity has provided another fun and
entertaining read from the Applebottom series.
I don’t think I could ever tire of this uniquely peculiar community of
meddlesome and feisty seniors who can throw shade like it’s an Olympic
event. Having spent my formative years
in a tiny inbred rural community, I know that it is vastly more enjoyable to
read Abby Tyler’s highly amusing small-town tales, which she has expertly cast
with variable tones of quirky and eccentric small-town characters, than it is
to actually live amongst the close scrutiny of the crabby and petty old
battle-axes who wag their tongues far more than their well-upholstered
tails. I strongly suspect this only
makes her humorous and sweetly written stories even more fun to indulge
in.
Empress DJ
About The Author
Abby Tyler loves puppy dogs, pie, and small towns (she grew up in one!) Her Applebottom Matchmaker Society books combine the sweet and wholesome style of romance she loves with the funny, sometimes a-little-too-truthful characters she remembers from growing up in a place where everyone knew everybody’s business.
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