I am more than a little torn on this one. I wanted to give it 5 stars so much because it is a good story but I had a bit of an issue with Rowan. She wasn't awful, she was just borderline mean at times which didn't feel right for the story. Maybe it was just me, I don't know.
The Start of the Story by Jane Lovering
Genres: Contemporary Romance

Rowan Thorpe can be forgiven for living with one foot in the past.
Since having to say goodbye far too young to the future she had planned, moving on still feels a daunting task. So, when historian Connor O’Keefe strides purposefully into her office and life, looking far too handsome for his own good and threatening to undermine the local legends she holds close to her heart, she is more than a little unsettled.

Connor has a past too, and his own reasons to keep his heart under wraps. But when a combination of fate and an unexpected snowstorm mean that Rowan and Connor have all the time in the world to swap stories, it may finally be time for an end and a new beginning.

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Rowan has the job that everyone wants. I know I would love it. She makes a living investigating and writing about folklore. In fact, you would have thought she would have pleased when a visiting professor wants to dig around a local landmark that is happens to be not far from the cottage that Rowan and her late husband renovated. She certainly is not happy let me tell you.

The Fairy Stane is a large flat rock with no markings on it and local lore says it can’t be moved lest you let the fairy folk who live under it out. This was giving Leprechaun the movie vibes for me but there you go. Connor however, believes it to be a former Roman marker and wants to lift it to see if there are marking on the underside.

Honestly, that sounds like the set up for a horror movie but I digress. It is a really good story line and drew me in because this could go in a whole lot of different directions. This is where I began to dislike Rowan a little and I think that was my whole issue. She doesn’t believe in the fairies but refuses to even consider allowing Connor to lift the stone. I just felt like she would have wanted to know for sure but she is trying to preserve folklore tradition. She just didn’t seem to even want to consider it.

Of course that is only part of the whole story. There are other issues going on as these two begin to navigate a growing attraction and relationship. Rowan is, at times, so locked in her grief that she just rubbed me the wrong way. I am not sure what it was about her. Like I said the story is great but for some reason I couldn’t connect with her. Again, that seems to be my problem.

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