Once upon a time, several books ago, in a little town named Virgin River, a handsome helicopter pilot named Hank Cooper, aka Cooper, aka Coop, came to town to visit some of the good folks of Virgin River - just long enough to tell us his backstory (a handsome wild man who has never settled down) and relationship to the Virgin River characters (Army buddies of course), and then he got a phone call that his best friend had died and he had to leave town to take care of things, and he never came back. “That was poorly done,” I thought when I finished the series. “Whatever happened to that Cooper guy?” Well. Goddammit. He moved up to a little beach town in Oregon called Thunder Point, where he inherited his best friend’s beach bar and befriended the local deputy sheriff who is a divorced but very handsome dad raising three kids and Deputy Dad is secretly in love with the single mother who lives next door and is his best friend and the mother of his daughter’s best friend. And Single Mom works at the diner where one of the regulars is a beautiful female Coast Guard helicopter pilot who is sad but beautiful and has vowed never to get close to a man again (did I mention she’s beautiful?!)...and now I’ve finished the first two books in this goddamn Thunder Point series. I’m never going to get to the pile of Canada Reads books on my nightstand, am I?!