A Dazzle of Diamonds Book Review

I was excited to read Dazzle of Diamonds (Georgia Coast Romance) by Liz Johnson even though it was the third book in the series and I prefer starting at the beginning.  I thought the cover and description had me hooked and ready to find out more.  It was worth starting in the middle of the series so that I could get to read this one.

Penelope Hunter loves her job as the events manager at one of Savannah's premier historic venues--until her ex-fiancé walks into her office with his new bride-to-be. To make matters worse, a scheming social matriarch is intent on seeing Penelope fired, especially if she insists on being seen with Tucker Westbrook.

Since returning from serving two tours in the Middle East, Tucker has built a thriving security company. His work is nearly as stabilizing as his friendship with Penelope, who has been by his side since childhood. But when the lone candidate for county sheriff goads him, Tucker loses his cool and ends up on the ballot--and on the receiving end of a smear campaign claiming the Westbrooks were traitors to the South.

To clear his name, Tucker and Penelope must join forces to find the truth behind a 150-year-old lost treasure. But the more time they spend together, the closer she comes to losing her job--and falling helplessly in love.

Penelope, also called PJ, was working in her dream job as an event planner.  She is trying to make the best times for other people's lives and worried about being fired.  Tucker is her best friend and working on becoming sheriff because he thinks that he can do a better job then the other candidate.  Both PJ and Tucker work together when the smear campaign starts making Tucker's family seem like traitors of the South which is ruining both Penelope's job and Tucker's chances at election.  There is a great mystery that no one in the past has solved but they have the best family history to work to find the answers to whether there are traitors in the past.  During this time, Penelope is dealing with her ex-finance coming into her venue with his new fiance to get married.  While Tucker is dealing with people who want the future sheriff to have a date for all of the campaign events.  They decide that they can pretend to date since they are best friends.  It turns out that makes both of them stop and think and everything changes.  You have to pick up the book to find out for yourself what happens with the treasure hunt, sheriff election, event planner job and most important between Tucker and Penelope.  I thought it was a great setting and amazing characters.  I can totally see this book turning into a movie because it is filled with everything you need to keep you turning pages.  I hope that you check it out and see for yourself!

**I got this book for my review but all opinions here are my own and I was not required to provide a positive review.