Setting: Kinderhook County, Missouri, present day

Sensuality rating: 5

Fasten your seatbelts; Suzann Ledbetter's South of Sanity is a wild ride! This sequel to East of Peculiar features the same quirky cast of characters, including the spunky band of senior citizens from Valhalla Springs retirement community. Readers should consider themselves duly warned when the felonies start adding up on the first page. Fast-paced and funny, this creative model of romantic suspense takes no prisoners and won't let you go until you've turned the last page and discovered once and for all: Will Hannah Garvey, resident manager for Valhalla Springs, ever get it on with Sheriff David Hendrickson? Who's responsible for the recent murders? Will Hannah and David ever get it on? Will Hannah's boss's mother continue to dispense her "medicinal" marijuana brownies at her biweekly bridge club? Will David be tried and convicted for a crime he didn't commit? Will Hannah and David ever put each other--and us--out of their misery and just do it already!? With another sequel, North of Clever, due out in December 2001, the surprises are guaranteed to keep on coming! --Alison Trinkle