Welcome to the Blog Tour for Hooked On You by Kathleen Fuller, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Hooked On You
Series: Maple Falls Romance #1
Author: Kathleen Fuller
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date: May 11, 2021
Genre: Contemporary Romance (clean/sweet)

She never wanted to come back. He never wants to leave. The town of Maple Falls has plans for them both. 

Riley McAllister is living the dream in New York City . . . if the dream means being a struggling mixed-media artist, part-time food delivery driver, and having a carefully curated social media to hide all of the above. She refuses to admit defeat and move back to small-town Maple Falls, but when her grandmother breaks her leg sliding into third base during a softball game (she was safe, by the way), Riley reluctantly agrees to go home and help the woman who raised her—while secretly hoping she can convince Mimi to sell her house and yarn shop and move in with a good friend. Then Riley can return to her new life in NYC, on her own and for good. 

But Mimi has her own plans, which include setting Riley up with local baseball star Hayden Price, who returned to Maple Falls after an injury ended his major league career. Now he works at his father’s hardware store, coaches the church softball team, and worries about the declining town. It’s not the life he dreamed of having. 

With a little meddling and a lot of kindness from the town, Hayden and Riley find themselves unexpectedly falling for each other as they discover the true meaning of home. 

Welcome to Maple Falls, where everyone knows your name and your business.

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars

My review:

Hooked on You is the first book in the new Maple Falls series, and it was a great start for the series.  It was a new-to-me author and I found it to be a fun small-town clean romance.   The pacing was perfect, and the storyline was developed.  The characters were wonderful especially the Bosom Buddies “BB.”  The BB were a group of elderly women who had been friends forever and who liked to meddle a little in others’ lives. 

Riley McAllister’s mother had never been reliable and finally, when Riley was twelve years old, she moved in with her grandmother Mimi.  During high school Riley tried to blend in and not get noticed because she did not want to answer questions about her earlier life.  She tended to be a loner but still noticed Hayden in high school.  She left Maple Falls for New York to pursue her career as an artist.  She had not returned to Maple Falls until the day her Mimi calls and asks Riley to come home and help her since she broke her leg.

Hayden Price worked his entire life to make it to pro-baseball league but ends up injuring his pitching arm during his first league game.  He returns to Maple Falls to help with the family’s store.  He hopes to rejuvenate the town to draw more people to the stores on Main Street.  Hayden feels somewhat responsible for Mimi breaking her leg.  He was glad to pick Riley up from the airport because he had always noticed her in high school but was too busy with baseball to ever do anything about it.

Riley and Hayden both feel the chemistry between them but staying in Maple Falls is not Riley’s plan.  She plans on staying long enough to help her grandmother and then return to New York.  It was great to see Riley open up and let Hayden in because she tended to keep everyone at a distance.

This was a sweet and clean romance with some humor and wonderful friendships.  I loved meeting the other characters and look forward to seeing them in future books.

I received an ARC and am willingly leaving a review.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.

 

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

With over a million copies sold, USA Today Bestselling author Kathleen Fuller is the author of several bestselling novels, including the Hearts of Middlefield novels, the Middlefield Family novels, the Amish of Birch Creek series, and the Amish Letters series as well as a middle-grade Amish series, the Mysteries of Middlefield. Visit her online at KathleenFuller.com

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