BOOK REVIEW- SAVING THE SHERIFF by Roxanne Snopek

The power might be out...but the heat is on. Will this felon burn him?

Every Christmas, free-spirited Frankie Sylva banishes her holiday loneliness with good deeds. This time, she's rescuing a truckload of neglected reindeer--until a blizzard sidetracks her scheme, and now she's stuck...literally. 

Local sheriff Red LeClair is shocked to find a very cute, half-frozen woman trespassing on Three River Ranch in a ditched rig, with a suspiciously empty trailer. Is she a horse thief? Is she on the run? Is she out of her mind? He has no choice but to take her back to the ranch and keep an eye on her. 
But when the power goes out, Red and Frankie are forced to depend on each other in a way that both have avoided for years. The sheriff's quiet holiday is suddenly festive: a crackling fire, candles, carols, and an irresistible stranger...who might be a felon.   AMAZON 5 STARS


Loved it!  The story had great main characters, an interesting, different kind of plot mixed with a lot of humor.  It was also emotional without being so heavy you got weighted down in it.   You could feel the loneliness of both of them but also it was easy to care that things would work out for them.
Several of the things Red thought about Frankie, was that she was a cute elf (you'll have to read the book to get more about that).  He was also feisty, smiley, intriguing, unsettling and challenging.   Also at times so easy to be around.  What a mix, right? 
Red deserved a whole lot better than life had dealt him.  He was a good guy, who cared about people but he was just a bit wary of getting too close to other people. He couldn't help but become entangled with the out-going, intense Frankie who had a heart of gold.  To be honest he never stood a chance against Frankie.  Which turned out to be a very good thing.
The conversation that Frankie had with herself was funny.  I did a lot of smiling reading this book.  Frankie was just as funny with others.  I really enjoyed the flow of this book; it was chock full for being a novella.  
One example of how interesting the observations were was when Red was thinking about how he imagined his loneliness as a yawning void, one he kept contained.  He avoided it, didn't want to fall into it and be destroyed. His thoughts about the way Frankie looked at loneliness was so funny and seemed to fit her personality as we learned it.  "He imagined Frankie opening hers and laughing into the depths just to hear the echo."  Loved that, it had to be one of my favorites!  
There was also some funny additions by some secondary characters in the book.  Bliss is just such a character; she doesn't show up a lot but when she does?  Oh boy!
Overall, a wonderful story to sit down to.