Kilbirnie Scotland: The Night Dusty Played

It is the 1960's and it is not a safe time for women to love each other. These thoughts are not on Patty's mind as she is looking around for a boy. Her parents want her to find a good Catholic boy. Every Friday she goes to the local concerts to look for him. Instead she gets trampled on by other concert goers and is bored wishing she was home. Tonight is different as she steps back to get air she sees a girl. She is dressed as a in penny pants leaning against the wall. Having no one else to talk to, she engages Frankie in conversation. She soon realizes that she has been looking for love in all the wrong places. Frankie being a girl may not be the biggest issue with her family.

This is a short story so I do not want to give too much away. This is such a cute and way too short romance. Kitty McIntosh makes you want to run up to the stage in Kilbirnie Scotland: The Night Dusty Played (2019), and then turn around and watch Patty and Frankie. Since this is the first book in the “Loving Blue in Red States” series maybe we will get to see Patty and Frankie again. The book concentrates on how religion also impacted relationships in the 1960's. It kind of overlooks Patty's own self-revelation of “OMG I'm a lesbian.”. McIntosh has Patty treat their love as just something they can deal with. The religion issue they need to fix (laugh). It is refreshing in some ways. The romance is innocent. I keep thinking of the early Harlequin Romance books, when it was just the story and the kiss at the end. This is almost like that and it is really sweet. (Well except for Patty's screaming in her bedroom, (laugh) but the sex is unseen.)