Let me just say that cops are my favorite modern heroes, in real life
and in romances.  There’s just something sexy about a man that defends the weak, protects the innocent and does it for little or no recognition.  So, when I discovered Rachel Gibson’s books, IT MUST BE LOVE ranks right up there as one of my all time favorite romances, and it also helped that Joe is a cop.
 
Joe Shanahan needs to go undercover to investigate an art theft, and his main target is Gabrielle Breedlove (don’t you just love that name?).  She is everything Joe doesn’t understand, from her auras andyin and yang, to her psychic mother.  Posing as her boyfriend definitely  stirs things up between them, but he knows he can’t fall in love with this woman he’s supposed to be investigating.  Gabrielle can’t believe that the stalker that had been tailing her is actually a cop.  When she discovers that he is investigating her,  she really doesn’t want to get involved with him.  However, the handsome cop posing as her boyfriend has all this bad karma  she can’t help but want to fix.  When the job is done, will there beenough left of her heart to live without him?
 
This book has a little bit of everything in it.  From laugh out loud and
 heart tugging scenes to intense sexual tension, Gibson has created two
 wonderful characters that will steal your heart.  Joe is a tough, down
 to earth, no-nonsense kind of cop.  He doesn’t understand the world Gabrielle lives in, nor does he think he wants to.  It’s so fun to watch him constantly get thrown off guard by some quirky thing  Gabrielle does, all the while falling in love with her.  Gabrielle is a strong  woman, yet at the same time there is a vulnerability to her that is
 clearly seen in the end.  This is not a deep book, but there are issues
that make this relationship really work and a joy to watch progress.
  Even after all the other books Gibson has written, IT MUST BE LOVE
 still ranks at the top of my favorites pile, followed closely by
 TRUE CONFESSIONS (Another cop hero).