From book 1: Hello, My Love is a thoughtful woman's romance novel. It goes beyond beyond broad shoulders and heaving bosoms. A modern-day pastiche of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell novels, it is a tale of deep love, refreshing and different in its realistic spin, and spiced with a twist of whodunit. Romance novels are escapist fare—adult fairy tales which can make our lives a teensy bit more bearable or more titillating. For those few hours we spend with them, we're transported into an imagined world that assures us a happy ending. Hello, My Love! does just that. But it also takes us into the inner life (thoughts, hopes, and doubts) of the main protagonists as they contend with realities that often face couples in compelling relationships—revenge of a jilted lover, past relationships, abortion, career choices, reactions of friends and relatives. Hello, My Love is a love tale of this day, complete with the messiness of feelings and events that could happen to most of us. It won't tell you 30 times how Elise wants to or does, in fact, melt on the broad shoulders of Greg. If you feel cheated because it does not, then, this novel is not for you. But read it: If you want protagonists who confront real-life issues they eventually overcome―a bright young lawyer who confronts tough choices and draws out the sensitive, caring side of an alpha male haunted by past relationships. Heartache and the specter of revenge follow when these sparring partners spend the night together two days before he weds someone else. A delicious, engaging romp that Goodbooks Today.com calls an excellent read for one who doubts the power of love at first sight.