- Pub. Date: June 2010
- Publisher: Mira
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 408pp
- ISBN-13: 9780778328704
I tend not to like romances set in the greater Sacramento area. I just really don't like Sacramento. It's a quirk I have, so any romances set there are automatically engaged in an uphill battle with me. But Robyn Carr's latest wasn't, in the strictest sense, a romance at all. A Summer in Sonoma
is more of a women's fiction book, as it focuses on a large ensemble cast of characters and their various relationships. Which, again, runs counter to my personal preferences.The focal relationship is one that begins with an attempted rape. Cassie, an ER nurse, is assaulted in a parking lot. She is rescued in the nick of time by a big, burly biker named Walt who breaks through a side window to free her from the would be rapist. Cassie and Walt form a tentative, unique friendship that Cassie, at least, is determined to keep strictly platonic because she just can't see herself dating someone who looks like he does.
