I really liked this author’s first book in the Green Valley Heroes series, Letter Late Than Never, and so I was very excited for this one. And once again I was not disappointed! While the only problem I can possibly think of with this one is maybe it was a little long, the story was perfect otherwise! And strangely, this is my second virgin hero story in a month’s time!

Robin was a strong woman who actually even tied us back to the last story I read in this series, Young Buck by Kilby Blades, because she was catching her boyfriend in the act of cheating on her. For some reason she called in her boyfriend’s cousin, Arthur, to ask if he knew about it. He didn’t want to believe her, so she took him with her when she went to confront him. Let’s just say Robin knew about getting back at someone. Eggs, the garden hose, she made sure her ex, Daren, knew she was mad, and she tried to make sure he knew she was done with him.

Arthur was the strong, silent type. The big broody, grumpy bearded guy. But totally a cinnamon roll as he was also a softie on the inside and with his friends and people he cared about. He gave Robin a place to stay and was her shoulder to cry on. He believed he had a soulmate, based on his father’s love of his mother, who he’d lost at a young age. He was so sure he would find that soulmate with a first kiss and would just know.

Robin’s background was a mother who would constantly move when her relationships didn’t work out or ended, making Robin sure she would never move for a man, would only do what she wanted. And she had been a pilot in the military, lost part of her hearing because of it. Now her dream was to one day own a plane repair shop, like where she currently worked. Her current boss is ready to retire, and she’s just waiting for him to let her know if she can take over, only all of a sudden he brings his son in, and now she’s afraid he plans to hand the shop to him instead of letting her take it over.

Robin was funny. She decided she didn’t want to be herself for a while, wanted to be someone different, so she put on Arthur’s clothes and tried to act like him and be him. She soon found out he wasn’t a good kisser. Which led to finding out more things about his inexperience. After a few kissing lessons, or kiss attacks as Robin called them, he had a real kiss, and knew that Robin was his soulmate. He’d wanted her since the first time his cousin had brought her to meet the family, but of course had put that out of his head because she was with his cousin.

And the two of them do the whole fake dating routine. But with all the help Robin gives Arthur to help with his inexperience, of course the two of them get to know each other better and grow closer and fall in love with each other. As they go along, there is not only Arthur’s cousin, Robin’s ex Daren, but also all of his brothers, I believe 3 others besides Daren? At first they are all mad at Arthur for supposedly stealing Daren’s girl. But Arthur finally finds out, exactly as I’d suspected, that Daren’s family didn’t know the truth behind why they broke up. And that changes it all.

I loved all the characters in the story. Not only the Green Valley gang we’ve met in other books, like Arthur’s postal worker friends, but also his family, because his mother was from India I believe? So he face-timed with them at one point and his grandmother, mother’s mom, fell in love with Robin when she saw her there. And let’s talk about the Kraut brothers, Arthur’s cousins who were basically like his brothers. I’m hoping we get a spin-off series with all of them getting their own HEAs!