I love stories that take me to a place I’ve never been and allow me to feel as if I was there. Leath’s Legacy easily achieves this feat. Set in the countryside of New Zealand, Anne Ashby does an incredible job of drawing you into the story and allowing you to visually picture each scene as it unfolds. Whether it’s the shoreline of the beach, a walk through the bush or the meanderings around the property, you get a feel for the lay of the land without ever realizing she’s taken the time to describe it.

While the trope of inheriting from an unknown benefactor isn’t new, Leath’s Legacy puts a new spin on it with the mystery of finding out the relationship to the benefactor. It’s a mystery that keeps you turning the pages, one after another, hoping to figure out the connection. Leath and Kirk’s characters were both solid, well intended and genuinely good. It takes a bit to get into the romance aspects of the story, as the beginning is mostly about the renovations of the property, but I didn’t mind that part and enjoyed seeing Leath and her brother’s ideas come to life. I felt the romance was on par and believable in every day life and liked the added touch of Kirk dealing with his father’s disease.

Although there are no explicit sex scenes, Leath’s Leagacy does contain a fair amount of sexual tension between the two main characters. At times this can be quite spicy, but in my opinion it still remains true to a clean romance.