Title:  Some Girls Don’t
Series:  Outback Heat #2
Author:  Amy Andrews
Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Published:  October 6, 2015
Publisher:  Tule Publishing
My Rating:  5 stars
Source:  NetGalley
Cover Description:

Local television reporter Selena Durrum is in Jumbuck Springs for three days. Get in, see her grandmother, give her speech, and get out. Her career is about to hit big and she can’t afford any distractions. Especially not her childhood sweetheart…

Jarrod Weston, rural firefighter, isn’t worried about seeing the woman who’d done a midnight runner on him fifteen years earlier. It was a long time ago and he’s moved on with his life… right?

But neither of them were ready for their still potent attraction and the heavy pull of unfinished business. But then Selena gets offered the opportunity of a lifetime and once again has to choose between love and career… Will she go with her heart, or her head?

Read on for my thoughts on Some Girls Don’t.  No true spoilers, promise.

Selena was back in Jumbuck Springs.  Back in the hometown she ran away from fifteen years ago to chase a dream.  She and Jarrod had been so in love and so young.  She had a dream and in order to grab that dream she had left his in the dark of night without a word.  Now years later, she’s back in town and it’s long past time to make up for the past between them.  Jarrod never thought to lay eyes on Selena again.  He’d believed that he had moved on, but knew deep down that he’d forever be haunted by the love that had left him behind for a dream she could not share.  They may have come together for a short time, but reality still steps in as Selena returns to her job once more.

Some Girls Don’t is an intense story of love never truly lost but set aside for a time.  While the love between Selena and Jarrod works its way through time, trials and mistakes – it is not the only story within Some Girls Don’t.  The bushfires that plague the Outback also will touch your emotions throughout this story as they are in a way a unique character as well.  The bravery of the men and women who fight the fires and the families who are affected by the devastation of the fires is a riveting part of this story – and central to the plot.

I enjoyed this story and would recommend it highly for any romance reader.  The love story is satisfying and so very realistic.  The story of an act of nature puts such a human touch onto this story as lives are changed in an instant as a fire moves direction.  You will be turning pages quickly right up to the final word.

I received an e-ARC of Some Girls Don’t from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

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