One Thing Leads To A Lover

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Susanna Craig might be my new go to for stress-free romance fun.  She does a great job balancing both a budding relationship with strong chemistry and a just-complicated-enough spy plot without it going off the deep end.  Often in series like this the books will start strong but escalate wildly later in the series, seemingly just because the author was running out of ideas.  There’s still time for the Live and Let Spy Series to go wrong, but Craig hasn’t disappointed me yet!

In One Thing Leads to a Lover, we get to watch Amanda, an overly-sheltered widow with two young kids slowly fall for Major Langley, the charismatic but anxious intelligence officer who has intruded on her quiet life while trying to retrieve vital information for the crown.  Amanda is painfully aware that this may be the most exciting thing to happen for the rest of her life, so she grabs onto   

the adventure with both hands despite Langley doing his absolute best to keep her out of it.  

I alway love a woman going for what she wants, especially in a regency romance!  I thought the kids were pretty well written too, and the scenes where Major Langley suddenly finds himself in charge of two youngsters were a lot of fun.  Overall this isn’t a book with a lot of surprises, but it's exactly what you want to pick up at the end of a long week when you have exactly two brain cells still (mostly) functioning.  

Since most of the book is spent with everyone fighting over a french cookbook, I paired this with a French 75 - one of my favorite guilty pleasure cocktails!  When I used to travel for work I would always order one on layover and people-watch or read the book of the week.

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French 75

Ingredients

• 1 ounce gin (I used Breckenridge Gin)

• 1/2 ounce lemon juice

• 1/2 ounce simple syrup (I only did 1/4)

• 3 ounces Champagne (or other sparkling wine)

• Garnish: lemon twist

Add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into a Champagne flute and top off with the Champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist and enjoy!