by Diana Palmer
Part of Long, Tall Texans, book 36
First published 2009
Gracie lost her mother years after her stepbrother Jason left home. She never expected to see him again. But Jason made sure she would be taken care of when their mother died. Now he owns the sprawling Comanche Wells ranch and has wealth beyond what anyone in their small town imagined. When Jason finally returns home, he faces a shock. The little girl he remembered has become a woman. Gracie has grown up in his absence, and everything between them has changed. The ranch brings them back together, but the years apart have created distance neither of them anticipated. Jason must reconcile his memories of the child Gracie once was with the woman she has become. Their reunion forces both of them to confront what family means when blood ties and time have complicated everything they once knew about each other.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Comanche Wells, Small Town
Period: Present Day
298 pages · Hardcover · HQN