Carolyn Brown

After catching her husband kissing another woman in the barn, Loretta Sullivan Bailey left Lonesome Canyon Ranch and swore she'd never come back. But when her daughter threatens to drop out of college to become a rancher's wife, Loretta refuses to let her baby make the same mistake she did. She returns to the ranch, determined to get her daughter back in school by the summer's end and resolute on ignoring her feelings for her ex-husband. --A cowboy from his hat to his boots, ruggedly handsome rancher Jackson Bailey is none too pleased that his feisty and gorgeous ex-wife has suddenly shown up seventeen years after their divorce. But despite all their fighting and fussing, the two stubborn former lovers soon discover that old flames burn the hottest. Can they finally put aside their differences and find happiness together --forever?

Long, Hot Texas Summer

Lynn Braden

Loretta has come back to Canyon Ranch in Texas to convince her daughter, Nona, that it is time for her to come back to Oklahoma, finish her last year of college, and get her degree, but Nona has other ideas. She is in love with one of the ranch hands and she has decided to learn ranching from the ground up and take over once her father, Jackson, retires. Loretta and Jackson have their own issues to settle since they never discussed the night that Loretta caught Jackson in the barn with a woman and ran out, leaving the ranch for good. Now Loretta is finding that she enjoys being back on the ranch and begins to wonder if she made a mistake all those years ago.

Long, Hot Texas Summer starts out with a bang, but ends with a thud. In the beginning of the book, Loretta and Jackson have passionate arguments that in the past led to "make-up" sex, but by the end of the book, the passion that was evident at the beginning of the book has pretty much fizzled out. Most of the characters in the story are very one dimensional and the motivation of the main characters seems flimsy at best. Overall, this is a light, pleasant romance with very little conflict or other details to give it much substance.

Long, Hot Texas Summer

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