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"Another entertaining book from this talented author."
Reviewed by Delia Larkins
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted July 14, 2003

Kate Harmon and her 17-year-old son, Ryan, return to Cedar Dell, Texas, after her father is in a major car accident. Kate thought she'd never return home. When she became pregnant and wasn't married, she moved away and had only come back for her mother's funeral, which didn't end well. Read more...

"puissant three generation contemporary family drama"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 25, 2003

North Dallas CPA Kate Harmon is excited about going out with legal hunk Nicholas Sutherland until she receives a cell phone call from her brother-in-law Alan. He informs her that her dad Jack is in the hospital due to a car accident and her pregnant sister Sarah is there Read more...

Summary

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

How did life become so complicated? One minute I'm dating the hottest man in Dallas and the next I'm back in Cedar Dell, Texas, surrounded by grannies, gossip and green bean casserole—and helping my dad recuperate from a car accident. Did I happen to mention that I caused a scandal in town when I got pregnant at seventeen? No one has ever forgiven me—not my hard-hearted father, my brother Mr. Perfect, or my pregnant-for-the-first-time-at-forty sister who's gone totally hormonal.

As if this weren't enough, who should also be back in town but Max Cooper, the former high school football star, who is my teenage son's father. And now he wants to date me?!

Who ever thought that so many new horizons and second chances would open for me during one long, hot Texas summer?

Kate