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"A really feel-good story with vivid characters and setting."
Reviewed by Paula Myers
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted August 19, 2003

Colleen "Collie" Collins has lost her job, her credibility, her boyfriend and several friends because she told the truth in libel charges against her editor. Stunned at the downward turn her seemingly ideal life has taken, she doesn't put up much of a fight when a friend offers her a Read more...

"engaging relationship drama"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 26, 2003

Just a few months ago, Colleen Collins worked as an investigative reporter for American Business Dailey in DC. Now she is unemployed but needs money so Coleen accepts a freelance assignment from a friend at Southern Women's magazine to write a series of articles on food and culture. Colleen accepts the Read more...

Summary

What seemed like a road to nowhere might be leading her straight home...

No one is more surprised than Colleen Collins when she's offered a job writing fluffy magazine articles about rural Texas cooking. The big-city investigative reporter knows nothing about goats, prickly pears, or peafowl, and to make matters worse, she can't even cook. But thanks to a political scandal that cost Collie her job, her boyfriend, and now—with this demeaning assignment—her self-respect, she has no choice but to drag herself out of bed and head to the Texas Hill Country.

After only a few days in the charming little town of San Saline, Collie finds her affection growing for its big- hearted residents. And despite her intentions to the contrary, she's finding it impossible to resist the infuriating True McKittrick, a local boy-made-good whose mere presence makes her feel utterly alive...and inexplicably at home. Soon, this unlikely romantic pairing is stirring up more than just desire. It's making Collie wonder about the life that once seemed perfect—and the chance of starting over...with a man who's True.