Buried Hearts, book 4, Laurel Ridge novella series

 After an archeologist, who reads the dead from what they leave behind, meets a psychic balloonist talks to the dead, the attraction is instant and intense. But can two vastly different people meet in the middle, shed their walled-up exteriors, and expose hidden longings and buried hearts?

About the Book:  When archeologist Clint Anderson meets balloonist Gabby King, he is immediately smitten. Unexpected emotions flare when the straight-laced, hyper-organized academic finds her footloose, fancy-free lifestyle interesting.

          By circumstance, Gabby becomes involved with Clint’s current restoration project—a VW beetle that's been underwater for a decade and was recently fished out of a local lake. After she finds an expensive bracelet hidden under the floor mat, they uncover another part of a mystery and leads to even more questions.

As they get better acquainted, their emotional walls crumble and their buried hearts are exposed. Can two eccentrics handle a discovery of unexpected love and allow those walls to finally fall?

 Our Review: No one who’s read the earlier Laurel Ridge novellas would pass up a chance to spend time with the folks inhabiting the small mountain town of Laurel Ridge. And along the way, discovering new clues to the mystery behind the classic VW bug that was hauled out of the local lake just a few days ago, just adds frosting to the delicious cake. Walls start coming down for the two seriously different Clint and Gabby, right up there with the others who came before, in the delightful Laurel Ridge series. Well written with snappy, realistic dialogue, the times may change but honest emotions stay the same. No one writes emotions better than Diana Stout.

 Based on a scale of 1-5, Buried Hearts deserves a 6.

 Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews