It Happened on Route 66
Micki Miller
Humorous Contemporary Romance
When Joel Tyler drove away from the factory to pick up the load of his rejected creation, the last thing he expected to see was a hitchhiking bride. He didn’t have time for this. Besides, he had enough troubles of his own without picking up more. But he couldn’t leave her on the side of the road.
Maddy Hayden was exhausted. She’d run away from a terrible situation without a plan or a destination. Hitchhiking was a bad idea. Worse was getting in a truck with a man traveling alone. He was probably a serial killer. Whatever. It was a suitable end to this day.
When two people who are having the worst day of their lives meet, they can either crash and burn, or save each other.
Uncaged Review: Maddy has led a predictable, boring life. After her mother died, she took care of her sister and father, did all the cleaning and cooking and still held down a job. But that was about all she did. She’s set to marry Owen, a man that seems like the perfect catch, but is he? On the day of the wedding, Maddy runs from the church, in her wedding attire and ends up hitchhiking a ride on Route 66. The man who stops is Joel, who is on his way to pick up some dolls that he created for the family business and are not selling, they are a flop. When he sees a woman in a wedding dress, he has to stop.
If you think that’s crazy, then you should just keep reading. It gets hilarious at times, and with her fiancé she left at the alter, he’s following with a tracking app he put on her phone, and then the fiancé is getting traced by a bug under his seat by Maddy’s best friend and grandmother. And the grandmother, Sophia, is a hoot. Until the end, I wanted to slap Maddy’s sister a couple of times just to shake some sense into the girl. This is a fun book, with two people thinking each other are serial killers when they meet, and it ends up that they were exactly what the other one needed. My only complaint, and it’s not a big one, is that between some of the conversations there would be two or three or more paragraphs of explanations, which broke up the banter a bit, but it was easy enough to get through.
Reviewed by Cyrene
4.5 Stars
