Dancing Shoes and Honky-Tonk Blues: LuAnn McClane

IN A RUT
Waitress Abilene Harper has always been a bit on the shy and clumsy side. So when reality TV spoof Dancing with the Rednecks comes to Misty Creek, Kentucky, nothing could make Abby agree to participate... nothing except a fifty-thousand-dollar grand prize! While she doesn't relish being laughed at, it sure would be danged sweet to buy a truck with all the trimmings, fix up the diner for her hardworkin' mama, and send her brother to the fancy college he deserves.
BREAKIN' OUT
Abby's tall, dark, and smokin'-hot dance instructor, Rio Martin, is mighty ticked when he finds out the ballroom-dancing competition he signed on for is actually a joke. But Abby's spunk and determination soon have him setting his sights on winning. He whips Abby into shape, and she begins to cha-cha and rumba her way into the hearts of the TV audience, while the chemistry between the unlikely couple sizzles. Rio tries to remain all business, but Abby has her eyes on the prize--and it isn't just the money.

The look into the inner workings of a reality TV show about rednecks brought gales of laughter and tears to my eyes. The mental image of a very large truck driver, the zany librarian with glasses and a large overbite, or the farmer in his overalls doing the rhumba, or any other formal dance, was just to much. And her use of southern dialect added to the hilarity.

While the rest of the story worked, the romance between the smokin' hot professional dancer and the hokey redneck seemed contrived. When is the last time you saw a redneck waitress in her apron with a sizzlingly hot guy on her arm? That kind of thing only happens in fairytales.

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Publisher: Signet (May 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451221036
ISBN-13: 978-0451221032
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