Carry Me Home by Rosalind JamesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Professor Zoe Santangelo is a new hire at the local college in Paradise, Idaho although her long-term ambition is research at one of the Ivy League colleges in her chosen field of Hydrogeology. A native Californian she hasn't yet learned how to deal with Idaho weather and spins out of control on black ice where she is rescued by a local 'farmer' called Cal.
Cal Jackson may be a farmer now but he was once an NFL football player and a household name. Professor Santangelo is small, curvy and all sorts of sassy, her complete ignorance of who Cal is or what he used to do is very refreshing, as is her suspicion and general attitude.
Paradise Idaho is also the home to a serial rapist who likes to stalk and terrorise young female students, Zoe and Cal get drawn into his orbit when one of Zoe's students becomes his next obsession.
Rosalind James is a writer who can write different genres quite effortlessly. I know her best for her New Zealand rugby romances but I have read some of her romantic suspense before. She writes gritty, scarey, violent thrillers with a side order of romance with strong, likeable heroines and equally likeable heroes.
In equal parts, sexy, frightening and swooney this was a great intro to a new series (for me).
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