Something to Talk About

NARRATOR: Scarlet Chase A great addition to this very funny series mainly set in a phone-sex company in a quite conservative Southern town, although as the previous books it's not as risque as you may think as it's not so much about the phone-sex company but more about the characters and just very amusing. This book is about Em (Emeline) who is now the General Manager of 'Call Girls'. Her ex-husband ran off to follow his dreams after admitting he was a cross-dresser called Trixie, but left Em and their two young sons with all the gossip that of course ensued afterwards. Em has always been fairly quiet but after the divorce, and working at her new job with the other much more outgoing girls, has brought her out of her shell a bit and made her want to be a bit more adventurous with her life. At the beginning she inadvertently crosses swords with Jax, after his young daughter rings Call Girls looking for a girlfriend for her Dad and gets through to Em in error. After the confusion is sorted out it turns out that Jax is a single Father to his daughter, good friends with Caine (previous book and part-owner of Call Girls) and has just moved back into Plum Orchard. He ends up working as a freelance programmer at Call Girls and sparks start flying between him and Em and they start seeing each other secretly, no strings attached, bit of course feelings get involved and they start feeling more for each other than they'd planned. I love the characters in this book, they're so outgoing (I love Dixie!) but really have each others backs and when one of their own is in trouble they all rally around. I've read the first two books in this series and I'd forgotten quite how funny this series is. Very enjoyable light-hearted series that touches on a few more serious issues too to balance things out. I'm looking forward to reading about Jax's brother, Tag, in the next book.