"Lovely family story."

Leanna has been pushed into the deep end of the pool and is desperately treading water. She's trying to recover from a bitter divorce, raising a daughter by herself, has moved to a new and unfamiliar town and is starting a new job. Will this Yankee stay afloat in the Louisiana swamp?

Also responsible for a daughter, Jackson is not about to let Leanna pull him under. When Leanna finds irregularities at Jackson's business, he fights back with everything he has.

When the two little families collide, both parents soon realize that they could become one big happy family.

Reviewed by Susan Huston
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted May 16, 2003

Summary

Leanna Cargill is from up north—a damnyankee, as Southern folk say. But she's a steel magnolia if there ever was one—and she is determined to succeed at her new investigative job down south. All the more since a nasty divorce left her responsible for her little girl.

Jackson Fontaine maybe a Southern gentleman, but he is also a wheeler-dealer businessman and as strong willed as they come. He is not about to let his sugar plantation and refinery go under—he has a little girl to care for, too—because of any operational irregularities that Leanna Cargill may find.

Despite that, they like each other a lot. And when circumstances force Leanna to live at Bellefountaine, they both see how easily the four of them—Leanna and Jackson and their two girls—could make the arrangemnt a permanent one...