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He is having a difficult time coming to terms with his brother’s death. Jake Weston is the assistant baseball coach. Angel is a strong, savvy young woman who knows from experience how to infiltrate the group and sort out the players. She has information that some of the baseball team may be dealing drugs. Kirks the most compelling characters.Īngel Morelli is a police officer who is tasked with going undercover at a local high school to determine who is dealing drugs. Angel Morelli and Jake Weston are two of Ms. I am drawn to the unique and appealing characters in Ms. The characters, storyline and setting are much different from author’s Good Hope and Jackson Hole books. I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this book from the publisher and am happy to voluntarily review it.Ĭindy Kirk’s If I Belong With You is the first book in the author’s Seriously Sweet St Louis series. Thank you Cindy for another feel-good happily ever after story to enjoy! I highly recommend this book! Jake and Angel learned from one another, shared a faith and in the end were able to sort out misunderstandings and proclaim their love for each other. Often it is beyond our ability to forgive someone who took something special from our life which is what Jake experienced. In Angel’s case, she became a difference maker in helping other at-risk youth. The people who come along side you and believe in you and because of that faith in you, change your life. Also we learn about Angel and Jake’s past mistakes and hurts and how it was impacting their lives. There is the mystery of who is involved with the drug distribution. There are so many aspects of this story that draw you in. Jake did find out unexpectedly that Angel was his age and wondered what she was up to. Angel had to look at Jake as a possible suspect. Angel’s partner and pretend boyfriend, Crow, were investigating an interstate Methamphetamine ring that seemed to point to someone involved at the high school.Īngel and Jake felt a strong connection but Jake knew that he couldn’t go there as she was a student. He also was the coach of the boy’s baseball team. Jake Weston was a teacher and the Assistant Principal at Woodland Hills High School. She portrayed an eighteen year old student although she actually was twenty-six but looked much younger. I have enjoyed Cindy Kirk’s books and this one did not disappoint.Īngel Morelli was an undercover police officer. It only seems odd from the teacher/student perspective." However, I grew up with a Christian girl who, at 19, married a 27 year old, so it didn't seem that farfetched to me. The "age difference" between Jake and Angel is amusing at first. There's a terrific subplot on the subject of forgiveness that's interwoven with the drug ring plot and is also handled very well. Her plot involves the trafficking of meth in a small suburban town and her handling of this subject is good. Rutledge does create some two-dimensional characters here, but Amanda is a one-dimensional atheistic character who doesn't really do much. There's usually one nonbeliever and this time it's Jake's on-again, off-again girlfriend Amanda. The book also features Sal Tucci (aka the Crow), who is also featured in her novel "Judging Sara". Jake has noticed Angel as well, and wonders if she's the one who can make him believe in happy endings. Check out her website friend her on Facebook and follow her on twitter police officer Angel Morelli is investigating a drug ring but she's hit a snag: she's fallen head over heels for her handsome history teacher, Jake Weston, who's shaping up as a prime suspect in the investigation. She now writes for Harlequin Special Edition and Montlake Romance under Cindy Kirk. She invites you to kick off your shoes, pick up one of her books and get to know her. An incurable romantic, Cindy loves seeing her characters grow and learn from their mistakes and, in the process, achieve a happy ending.Ĭindy hopes that once you read her books you'll be able to tell she is an eternal optimist, one who truly believes in the power of love. She loves reading and writing romance because she believes in the power of love and in happily ever after. She jumped feet first into book length fiction. Unlike some writers, Cindy wasn't interested in shorter works of fiction. It took Cindy years to return to her first love-writing. At sixteen she wrote in her diary, "I don't know what I would do if I couldn't be a writer." But her interest in the written word started years earlier when she was in her teens. Cynthia Rutledge started writing after taking a class at a local community college.
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