Moonlight Road by Robyn Carr and Karin Jonkers

With her beloved younger siblings settled and happy, Erin Foley has empty nest syndrome. At age thirty-five.

So she's hitting the pause button on her life and holing up in a secluded (but totally upgraded—she's not into roughing it) cabin near Virgin River. Erin is planning on getting to know herself…not the shaggy-haired mountain man she meets.

In fact, beneath his faded fatigues and bushy beard, Aiden Riordan is a doctor, recharging for a summer after leaving the navy. He's intrigued by the pretty, slightly snooty refugee from the rat race—her meditating and journaling are definitely keeping him at arm's length. He'd love to get closer…if his scruffy exterior and crazy ex-wife don't hold him back.

But maybe it's something in the water—unlikely romances seem to take root in Virgin River…helped along by some well-intentioned meddling, of course.

2.5 because I'm a nice person.

Listen, the love story between Aiden and Erin was good, it was cute! I liked a lot of it, it was well done, as was the character development between Aiden and Erin. I was even willing to looking forward the ignorant remarks made about lawyers being “the opposite of nurturing” and the comments about a Estates/tax lawyer not being able to be cute. I rolled my eyes, was annoyed enough to share with my friends (one who is interested in becoming an estates/tax lawyer and is VERY cute) but that wouldn't have been enough to put it so low.

HOWEVER, the NUMEROUS subplots got to be way too much in themselves. There were so many subplots and they were SO weird. One or two ~different~ subplots to get the author's agenda about surrogacy, adoption, menopause, or mental health issues would have been enough but THIS many? Chill. It took away from the story and got weird at times. TMI to the max.

Finally, the kicker, was the extremely rude comments made about Eastern Europeans who grew up in a “turbulent region” and therefore are now con people and crazy because that's what the environment made them. The worst part of this comment is that this particular woman/man were from Bosnia, and if the author took some time to know Bosnian politics she would see why this is SO offensive. Maybe being Eastern European myself and the fact that the “bad guy” has the same name as my late grandfather makes me bias enough to have you ignore how offensive this plot point is but like the Serbians committed genocide against the Bosnians and that's why it was so “turbulent” so how you gonna victim blame and stereotype an entire ethnicity like that? Not okay.

Would give it more than five stars if I could.
I couldn't put it down, it was entertaining, I loved the struggles of the characters, it felt real.
My favorite one of the series!