Back to Buckhorn

Back to Buckhorn by Lori Foster

For odd-girl-out Zoey Hodge, the best thing about Buckhorn, Kentucky, was leaving it behind. And now she's back—at least until she can nurse her mother back to health and hightail it out of there anew. But there's one person she doesn't mind seeing again. Garrett Hudson was one of the few who was always kind to her. Now he's a firefighter—still one of the good guys, but with a sexy alpha charm that's tempting her inner bad girl.

In school, Zoey was smart, witty and unafraid to be herself. Garrett fell hard back then, and he's falling even faster now. As far as he's concerned, there are all kinds of reasons Zoey should stick around. Her pet grooming business. Her mom. And the chance for him to prove that he can be her real-life hero in every way that matters…

I received this book from Harlequin via Netgalley for an honest review.

Garrett does his sister a favor by picking up her friend at the airport. Zoey was always the odd girl but she owned it and he had always wanted to kiss her. She left town though and hadn't come back to Buckhorn since. Now shes home to take care of her mom that is sick. On first appearance though she looks ragged, on the flight there a kid puked all over her. After her shower, she looked jaw dropping pretty. 

Zoey had always had a crush on Garrett, but so had all the other girls in town. Getting in to town and expecting Amber to pick her up, she figured they'd laugh about her puke situation. Nope, no such luck, Garrett picks her up and she wants to die from mortification. She bounces back quickly and they start a friendship that goes from that to friends with benefits.

What friends with benefits relationship ever stays that way? I really enjoyed watching them try to keep their friendship strictly that, but the lines got blurred and neither one wanted to be the one to break the 'pact' they had made. I loved both of the characters and it was so awesome seeing the earlier characters from the other books in this series. I'm a fan of the author and her work. Read the Buckhorn series, you won't regret it. Remember to leave the author some love in the form of a review!