To Trust (Thorndike Clean Reads) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Carolyn Brown (Author)

Book Description

Series: Thorndike Clean Reads | Publication Date: July 2009

Dee Hooper and Jack Brewer grew up next door to each other in sleepy Buckhorn Corner, Oklahoma. From the time they were less than a year old they'd been best friends, but then Dee eloped with a man from Pennsylvania. Seven years later, she's brought a broken heart back home to her dysfunctional family: Roxie, the grandmother, who runs the family with an attitude of steel; Mimosa, the mother, who's been married so many times she's forgotten half of them; Tally, the sister who's in the county jail for writing hot checks; Bodine, Tally's daughter, who's been raised by Rosie just like Dee and Tally were; and Jack, the boy next door who's always loved Dee. Jack was the computer geek in high school, and he's turned that knowledge into a lucrative business--one that allows him to continue to run the convenience store in town, which he loves. He's content, selling picnic supplies and bait to the fishermen and campers. But there's a hole in his heart, and the only person who can fill it is Dee Hooper. Then one hot summer day she appears, and he's determined not to let her hurt him or get away again. With Dee and Jack battling past hurts and fears, they try to reclaim their lifelong friendship and trust again, each secretly hoping they'll be more than just friends this time around.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Brown stays on familiar turf—rural Oklahoma—for this contemporary chaste romance, the first of the Broken Roads series. After Dee Hooper's marriage to an upper-crust Pennsylvanian is annulled, she returns to Buckhorn Corner and the embrace of her charmingly eccentric Southern family: feisty grandmother Roxie, unlucky-in-love mother Mimosa, jailed sister Tally and precocious 11-year-old niece Bodine. And awaiting her next door is Jack, Dee's childhood friend, an independently wealthy writer of computer games who likes the simple country life. Everyone but Dee's aware that Jack's always carried a torch for her, and though a couple of obligatory obstacles are placed between them and a rosy resolution, there isn't much in the way of tension. Readers who enjoy wholesome romances will find one here. (Feb.)
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Review

...the down-home setting and extended family relationships do entertain. --Booklist

Readers who enjoy wholesome romances will find one here. --Publisher's Weekly --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 267 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (July 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1410416526
• ISBN-13: 978-1410416520
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,045,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Brown is a NEW York Times and USA Today bestselling romance author of more than fifty books.
Brown's books have been translated into nine foreign languages and fourteen have been reprinted in large print format. Her books have been reviewed in Library Journal, Booklist, Romantic Times, Romance Reviews Today, Publisher's Weekly, Cataromance, USA Today and Romance Reader At Heart. Two of her romances have been published as Japanese Manga books.
Brown writes cowboy romance for Sourcebooks: The Lucky Trilogy, the Honky Tonk Series and now the Spikes & Spurs Series.
She has also written more than forty sweet romances for Avalon; several historical series as well as contemporary stand alone romance novels.
Sourcebooks will publish her debut women's fiction novel in August, 2012.
Check out her website at carolynlbrown.com