It's springtime in Oklahoma, and Beverley Green is in a funk. She moved back to her home state after a successful career as a New York City book editor and immediately plunged into another successful career—more than one, in fact—as the owner of a book store named The Book Store (you can't miss it) and a reporter for the local newspaper. She's certainly got plenty to keep her busy, not to mention her growing collection of animals, from chickens to turtles to . . . (but that would be a spoiler).Alas, after almost a year in her new home, Beverley hasn't done the one thing she's convinced she really wants to do: write a novel. A romance novel, at that. She's made copious notes, but it's possible she has a certain lack of experience in this field, and she's on the verge of despair.What lifts her out of depression is not a single event but an accumulation of incidents, each by itself an irritant. Her parents, incurable matchmakers, fire the first round with a surprise visit to town and an invitation to dinner at a local restaurant, where they ambush their daughter with one of the town's eligible males. Callan, the town's sheriff, is a tall, good-looking character she's met before—in fact, he saved her from her meddling landlady, who was on the verge of shutting down her bookstore—but in Beverley's experience he's barely capable of saying two words at a time. While she now finds Callan speaking in somewhat longer and more interesting sentences, little comes of their first polite encounter.Meanwhile she finds herself trapped into trying to solve the mystery of two sheep, previously stolen—make that borrowed—and now missing from the ranch of Al and Bill, the very people who got Beverley involved in sasquatch hunting when she was new in town. And yep, they pull out the sasquatch card again.There's more to come (the landlady will return), but what makes this novel the best yet—not Beverley's elusive romance novel but this real one—is the author's confidence in allowing complex layers of plot to evolve and expand fully, her relaxation in letting important relationships develop, and, in short, her comfort in telling the tale. The rich humor isn't forced, and the situations, hilarious as they often are, seem downright believable.It's a pleasure to watch Andrea Neil's work grow more persuasive and more fun as her Beverley Green series continues. I'm waiting for the next one, due any day now.