Loathe Gray

Their meet-cute? He pulled her over for speeding and got an earful of the steamy audiobook she'd been listening to...

Officer Gray Hoffman lives by structure and routine: morning workouts, Friday night poker games, and his monthly true-crime book club. Utter perfection once he finds a wife to share his impeccable, though predictable, life with.

Sam Thornton - soon to be Sam Smith once her divorce goes through - moved out to Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, to discover who she is on her own. Without a man. Not that she wouldn't say no to a kiss or a one-night-stand, but that's as far as she'll let it go. Newly single, she's devoting all her time to her new career at Bark Sniff Wag, growing her steamy romance review blog despite the judgment she gets from others (Officer Gray, to name one), and living her best life in general.

Except that every time she turns around in the tiny town there's Gray being his usual uptight, no-fun-allowed self. Well, most times. Because lately she's caught a glimpse of a different side of Gray. As their arguments begin to sound more like flirty banter, Sam starts to wonder if maybe she'd written off the so-hot-it-should-be-a-crime police officer a little too soon. But is happily ever after even a possibility? All Gray wants to do is settle down while Sam's all but sworn off ever walking down the aisle again.