Full Tilt

This is an okay book co-written by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes. Beaumont, South Carolina has mint juleps, ladies who lunch, good ol’ boy politics, and Jamie Swift. She's running her family newspaper, ready to marry the town’s most eligible bachelor, and getting her future locked in. Then mysterious, high-tech wonder boy Max Holt comes to town. Sexy, wisecracking Max has turned from computers to crime-stopping. Now he’s got a case in Beaumont and a reason to look up Jamie Swift. Soon Jamie is caught in the crossfire of her own emotions, Max’s secrets, and the most irresistible desire.

This is the second novel in the series.