The Laws of Love by Lisa White

Reviewed by Jeanne

Livi Miller loves her job as a lawyer for Hampton Steel.  In fact, she loves it so much that it’s all but taken over her life.  She spends most of her waking hours either at work or thinking about work.  She lives for “the deal”—and she’s a very good deal maker.  It’s obvious to all her co-workers that she’ll be the one to take over as general counsel for the corporation when Robert Matthews retires, which shouldn’t be too long.

And then Jake walks back into her life.

Jake was the boy she loved in high school, the other half of the “perfect couple” they formed.  They’d planned to spend their lives together but once she went off to law school, they’d drifted apart.  The last she heard, he’d been in Iraq.  Now he’s back in Millersville, and she feels just as she did all those years ago.  It’s enough to set her head and her heart spinning.

Then Hampton Steel is threatened and Livi may have to choose between her two loves:  her job and Jake.

Laws of Love is a good romantic story with a bit of mystery/suspense thrown in.  I particularly enjoyed the small town setting of Millersville, named after one of Livi’s ancestors.  She feels a profound connection to the town, with her own family history tied up with the town’s history. White does a nice job of capturing the feel of the place and the people, where people know each other from high school and fishing is a favorite pastime.

I also liked that Livi and Jake don’t make big production out of resisting the attraction: too many authors try to build artificial tension that way. The love scenes are appropriately steamy but not too graphic. The tension in the story comes from a very real threat, one that Livi doesn’t see coming until it’s almost too late.

Lisa White is a lawyer and author who believes in the power of a good story.  Her next book is entitled Discovery and is the first in a trilogy.  It will be available in April. You can read more about White and her work at lisawhiteauthor.com