A review by kaydanielsromance
Beauty and the Bayou by Erin Nicholas

5.0

The Boys of the Bayou just keep getting better and better!! Sawyer Landry is the best Landry yet!

The grouchy, grumpy, overly cautious Sawyer has been thorn in his family's side for months now. While they've given him room to heal both physically and emotionally from the tragic death of one of their own, Sawyer just hasn't seem to recovered like the rest of the family. Scaring customers with his overly cautious and protective attitude who are there for a good time, not to mention his grouchy demniour doesn't exactly help bring back repeat business. His family is worried that Sawyer may never return to his former easy-going self and so didn't exactly inform him when a sexy beauty suddenly showed up one early one morning to help.

When Juliet's brother, Chase, destroyed one of the Laundry's docks in a stupid juvenile act of destruction, Juliet offered up their hands-on service to make things right. Not because she was an expert in building docks, instead she was hoping Chase would learn some respect and less "entitled" behavior from fixing his own mistake. She was there to make sure he did it right because she was nothing if not efficient, safe, and extremely organized. Growing up in an environment where she had to be prepared for "what-if's" at all times, Juliet is the queen of being over-the-top cautious and she just might be exactly what Sawyer needs even if he isn't aware of it, yet.

When Sawyer first saw Juliet Dawson on his dock wearing a hard hat, a lifejacket, and waders he was instantly curious, and aroused. He never in his life would have thought safety gear would have been arousing, but he also never met someone like Juliet. She turned his world upside down along with his frown. He found himself smiling for the first time in months and she was the reason. The more time he spent with her, the more he found the old Sawyer. Could Juliet be the cure to unlocking the gloom that has surrounded him for months?

While Juliet never would have found herself near water before volunteering to help her brother to fix his mistake, she does enjoy the camaraderie with the Landry's that she's never found anywhere else. She could easily see herself staying there, if only her life wasn't elsewhere, and far away from water and the dangers of the bayou.

Beauty and the Bayou is funny, heartwarming, loving, beautifully naughty, and healing. This is the best bayou story yet!