After seventeen years Loretta Bailey is spending her vacation at the Lonesome Canyon Ranch in the Texas Panhandle solely to convince her daughter Nona to come home to Oklahoma and finish her last year of college. After catching her husband kissing another woman in the barn all those years ago, no explanations were accepted and she picked her 4 year-old daughter up and left. Nona has been spending summers with her father, Jackson, since and ranching is in her blood. This is where she wants to be and not back in Mustang with her mother.

Jackson isn't all too happy that his feisty and hot headed ex has installed herself in the ranch house and refuses to budge until she has convinced her daughter to leave with her. Through all their arguing and fighting, neither has expected the flame to still be burning hot and their touch addling their brains. Watching their daughter and her passionate romance with the hired hand brings back the days of their own passion. Helping in the fields and driving the tractor also brings back the things Loretta loved about her life and dreams with Jackson. Unable to stop the yearning to again have what they once had, can they start again and work past the misunderstandings of the past and can history repeat itself? This bullheaded but sexy Texas cowboy is too much for Loretta to turn her back on a second time.

Written with a background of the Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, these two stubborn people find the need to cool off and reassess what was truly a lifetime love. Throw in one stubborn daughter and Loretta has finally met her match. I loved the passion shared by this couple and their amusing banter back and forth. The story is well written and grabs your attention from page one.

I have read the works of Carolyn Brown before and am not disappointed this time either. She always gives the reader emotion, eternal love and all the excitement you can handle. I loved LONG, HOT TEXAS SUMMER!

Book Summary

A sassy redhead with an axe to grind…

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 bullheaded but oh so sexy cowboy…

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?

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