Katherine Allred: 2 books

Sweet tea, corn bread, and soup beans; everyday fare for eight-year-old Alix French, the precocious darling of a respected southern family. But nothing was ordinary about the day she met ten-year-old Nick Anderson, a boy from the wrong side of town. Armed with only a tin of bee balm and steely determination,...

He doesn't believe in love, much less love at first sight...until she pulls him over to give him a summons for speeding. She thinks he looks shifty, or maybe drunk. There has to be a reason for that glazed expression. But she's just the cop to get to the bottom of this problem.