"Heaven, Texas" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Title: Heaven, Texas
Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Final Thought: Decent
Former pro-football player Bobby Tom Denton is the golden boy of his hometown Telarosa, Texas. Having to retire early due to a crippling knee injury, Bobby Tom agrees to star in an action movie as long as the producers are willing to film in Telarosa. Despite agreeing to do the movie, Bobby Tom is in no rush to go back home and start filming much to the dismay of the film crew who are wasting precious time and money waiting. Gracie Snow is sent to Chicago to fetch the would-be movie star and haul his ass back to Texas. He's not making it easy though, instead of flying he decides to make it a road trip. Having failed to bring Bobby Tom in a timely matter Gracie is fired. Feeling guilty, Bobby Tom makes a deal with Gracie's boss to keep her on as his personal assistant where he would secretly be paying her salary.
Gracie has always thought of herself as a bit homely. She certainly doesn't hold a candle to all the gorgeous women Bobby Tom surrounds himself with. No matter, it's hard not to fall for the guy despite being a chauvinistic ego-manic, he's awfully charming. Seeing how people are always taking from him, Gracie vows she will not be one of those people. Bobby Tom however asks a lot from Gracie when he announces she's his fiancée in hopes that people will back off with introducing him to all their single daughters and nieces. It works for the most part. Now pretending to be his bride-to-be, Gracie is of much interest to the town and Bobby Tom is finding he's the most interested of them all.
Bobby Tom was a minor character in It Had to Be You. He was cute in that book as a superstitious football player insisting Phoebe pat his butt before he took to the field. I had mixed feelings about him in this book. You can see he's a good guy overall, but the ego and machoness was a bit much. That was pretty much my biggest complaint about Dan in the last book.