While You Were in the Country

 While You Were in the Country

Eva Scott



Reviewed by Helen


This is a fabulous story inspired by the movie While You Were Sleeping it pulled me in with its witty dialogue and fabulous characters, it is filled with emotion and a loving heroine who will do an awful lot to help her AFL hero the one she has had a crush on for many years, but is he the person she thought he was, or maybe there is someone else for Frankie?

Frankie Fox is enjoying her 30th birthday on the Gold Coast with her sister Adele, after a few drinks she decides that it is time to get the old Frankie back an altercation in the pub brings her to meet Ant and a very fabulous and fun night is had but Frankie is called home to her small farm after a storm takes the roof of her house and that is the last she sees of Ant sadly even though she left her number.

Then not long after Frankie finds herself babysitting her AFL crush Jed Murphy, in desperate need of a new roof she signs an agreement to help bad boy Jed stay clean and out of the spotlight, this happens very quickly and another shock Jed’s brother arrives at her little farm and it is none other than Ant the one person she feels that she can love and now she is supposedly dating his brother what a predicament she finds herself in and how will things turn out?

Frankie’s quiet life on the farm with her geese, goats and chickens suddenly becomes hectic with Jed, Ant her sister Adele and her girlfriend Natalie all living there and Frankie has to keep her secret about her and Jed but her heart is crying out for Ant, keeping Jed from straying is not easy but he does throw himself into the community and soon he is very popular and starting to have feelings for Frankie that is the worst thing that could happen.

Truly this is such a great story, so very well written, it is fun with a beautiful romance I absolutely loved Frankie she has a heart of gold and the patience of a saint with what she goes through with Jed and trying to keep everyone calm and Ant what a guy I loved him so much he is the perfect hero for Frankie but he really went through a lot to win his girl, add in Adele and Natalie and Jed and this is a story not to be missed, do highly recommend it.

My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review.

5 stars
Expected publication: August 3rd 2022 by HQ Fiction