Zane Westmoreland is not the marrying kind, and that's what he told his lovely girlfriend Channing. She broke up with him and moved to Atlanta, and now she's going back to Denver for a medical conference, engaged. ZANE still feels badly about how their relationship ended. When they meet up again, Zane realises that much as he enjoyed his time with Channing he never really appreciated her. However she still wants marriage and a family, so should he let matters be, or try to win her back? Unknown to him, while they dated bets were laid in town about how soon the womanising Zane would tire of the girl. Channing is a modern woman with a firm sense of self-respect, and while Zane can still make butterflies leap inside her, she's pretty sure that he only loves himself.

The series about the scattered Westmoreland ranching family by prolific author Brenda Jackson has several earlier instalments, and this book contains a lot of backstory and references to other family members, which regular readers would enjoy as reminders of where the tale had got to with everyone. I imagine that if readers have followed the story so far they will be very pleased with another instalment. Readers coming to ZANE as a standalone, like me, may find it at times slow when we just want to get on with the main plot and see how the characters will work out their differences.

I suggest ZANE is best suited to anyone who might like the author or who started from the beginning of the series.

Book Summary

No woman walks away from Zane Westmoreland. But when Channing Hastings does just that, it leaves the rancher reeling—and then she returns to town, engaged! Zane will do whatever it takes to show her that there is no man for her but him.