Title: A Different Drum

Author: Cindy Causey

The Wild Rose Press

Contemporary Champagne Rose

Rating: Spicy Pages 196

ISBN: 1-60154-450-2

Release Date: 05-29-2009

$6.00

Blurb:

Out-of-work reporter Mallory Aikins dreams of a Prince Charming who will whisk her away from her family’s poverty to his mansion on the hill. Instead, she’s stranded in the tiny town of Sagebrush, watching her chance at a new start in Palm Springs evaporate in the New Mexico heat. But her reporter’s curiosity is piqued by sexy, mysterious, motorcycle-riding sheriff Drummond Wolfe. Mallory is determined to find out his secret, even if it threatens the passion that’s beginning to sizzle between them. Heir to a Gulf Coast oil fortune, Drum wants nothing to do with his wealthy family or the annoying, infuriating, and captivating woman he rescued from the side of the road. He likes his quiet and peaceful life, but Mallory could turn his world upside down.

In the process of running away from who they are, they’re destined to run right into each other.

Review:

I really enjoyed A Different Drum. A story with a "be careful what you wish for" theme, a good-bad-boy hero, and a heroine who has strength, but also insecurities. About one chapter into this book, and I was hooked. I snarled at my children who dared draw my attention away. The writing is clean and descriptive, the pacing was excellent, and the characters, even the secondary and very minor roles, were well developed.

I liked this book enough to research the author, to purchase any other books she may have written. Although I was disappointed to find that A Different Drum is Cindy Causey's first novel, I am eagerly awaiting her next. This was an excellent read, and Cindy...keep writing, you have fans waiting!

Reviewed By Jade Ryan

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