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Sweet Return (Signet Eclipse)

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I really enjoyed this one. Anna Jeffrey really knows how to put it out there, she certainly did not disapoint here. The story was sweet, the passion was hot, the chemistry was awesome. Hard headed man meets strong willed women. This is stictly a romance, no suspense, bad guys or anything like that. Just a story of two lonely hearts coming together. I can honestly say, the way this ended could not have been better. The scene Anna places in your mind when you read the ending.... it will stay there... oh true love, if it were only this way in real life!! But hey, thats what books are for.... escaping for a while.

In Hatlow, Texas Joanna Walsh owns a successful beauty salon business and an equally profitable making janitorial service. However, her latest business venture has proven to smell like rotten eggs. Her close friend of thirteen years cattle rancher Clova Cherry persuaded Joanna to join her in an organic egg enterprise as a means of saving her spread.

Clova has two sons; neither of which has helped her with the ranch. Lane is a drunk while Dalton is an internationally renowned photographer. When Lane ends up in an intensive care unit of Lubbock Memorial Hospital following a DUI accident, Dalton comes home from his Los Angeles base of operations to take his mom's cattle to market. Instead of cows he finds chickens and a thirty something woman who makes him dream of settling in West Texas. He accuses the chicken farmer of abusing the kindness of his mom; she accuses the wandering son of abandoning his mom fifteen years ago leaving her to struggle to pay her debts. Obviously love is everywhere when these two enemies meet.

SWEET RETURN is a sweet contemporary Texas romance that sub-genre fans will enjoy reading as the lead couple is a workaholic pair who must find time in their busy regiment to battle, argue, and fall in love. Anna Jeffrey provides a warm fun tale.

Harriet Klausner

Outstanding book. Very believable and real. I started reading in the morning and could not put it down until I finished it. Gripping! It was funny in places which is always nice and very thought provoking. It brings into life modern day issues and shows how a person doesn't always have to be a by-product of his or her childhood environment. Bravo Anna for a job well done.

Consistent writing habits and always a good story with very likeable characters. This one is worth your time and money. Enjoy.

Dalton Parker is a photo journalist who travels all over the world to hot spots. For 20 years he has all but ignored the mother and brother, Lane, he left behind in Hatlow, Texas. When he was growing up his stepfather beat him, and his brother, and Dalton has never been able to forgiven his mother for allowing it to happen. Now when Lane is in a near fatal accident when driving drunk, Dalton agrees to come home temporarily to help his mother with her ranch. When he pulls in the driveway he sees a small chicken farm, on his mother's land, run by Joanna Walsh.

Joanna is 35 years old and runs a beauty salon and beauty supply store. She has become good friends with Clova, Dalton's mom, who is very lonely as she has no family with her anymore. Clova talked Joanna into putting a chicken farm on her land to keep her only real friend close. Joanna agreed but the toll of all her businesses and the work involved with each is wearing her down.

Dalton and Joanna clash immediately but soon become attracted to each other and actually start to like each other. She's afraid he's a one night stand man and he's afraid she'll want a relationship he doesn't feel he can give. It was a nice change to read a book with main characters that are actually approaching 40. It seems like anymore they're under 30.

But Dalton, for his age and experience, was on the immature side. He believed Joanna guilty of motives she didn't have and took off without explanations, leaving her crushed. His involvement with Candace was puzzling too. She lived with him for a year, granted not faithfully, and wanted to marry him even though he told Joanna the only thing Candace cares about is the way she looks and becoming an actress. They supposedly broke up before he left for Texas. His end of a cell phone conversation with Candy in front of Joanna, "Hey babe it's me. I'm sore all over. I need one of your, ah, rubdowns." "Aww you're a sweetheart, honey. I miss you too, baby." Doesn't sound broken up to me and if they really are it sure sounds like he's leading her on.

Also Dalton and Joanna never told each other than they loved them. I guess I just need to hear that in a romance novel.

This was good but not as good as "Sweet Water".

I first read Jeffrey's Love of a Cowboy some years ago, and knew I'd found a winner. I've read every one of Jeffrey's books since. Every time a new book comes out, I think to myself that she can't top the last one, and and this one can't be a home run. Then I read her new offering, and realize I'm wrong. Again. Jeffrey creates real characters whom I feel like I know somehow. She makes me cry, giggle, sometimes guffaw, and always she makes me care what happens to her characters. More importantly, she makes me want to WRITE. Her down-to-earth writing style makes me think "I could do that, and I want to do that." Thanks again, Ms. Jeffrey, for taking me back to West Texas, making me smell the dirt and the mesquite, and experience romance and love all over again.

SWEET RETURN is funny, sexy, poignant and fast paced. Dalton Parker is a hunky hero the reader cares about. Joanna is a hard-working, industrious, compassionate and caring woman who wants to save everyone in trouble. When Dalton and Joanna meet, the fun starts. I loved this book.