A Novel Proposal is a stand alone book by Denise Hunter.. The main character is Sadie Goodman, a school teacher and an aspiring author. She is most familiar with writing westerns but her publisher tells her those books are not selling and urge her to write in a genre that she has no experience in writing and that genre is contemporary romance. She only has three months to write a novel so she retreats beach house located in North Carolina. Sadie does not meet a stranger and strikes up friendly conversations with everyone she meets on the beach. Her duplex neighbor Sam Ford is nice looking but quite stand offish. You find out later why he is that way. He finds her annoying and does not really want to get friendly but Sadie manages to wear him down even bring him cookies. Sadie is not making much progess but she decides that she is going to base the hero in her novel on Sam.. I knew that would not come out well for her if he found out. Anyway Sadie decides to construct a little lending library and places it in the front yard so anybody passing by can take a book for free and read it. She finds a beautiful diamond ring in a secret compartment of a book and somehow enlists Sam to help her track down the original owner of the ring and the book. I loved the mystery part of this book and how they were able to find the owner of the ring. It was a surprising twist who the ring belonged too. I loved this book but of course I have never met a Denise Hunter book that I did not like..
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own."
