Summer Rain

by Lisa Jackson

Eleven years ago, on a dusty Wyoming creek bank, Trent McCullough's lips claimed hers for one glorious, mind-spinning moment. But Ainsley Hughes was promised to another man and determined to leave the hard country life behind. — Now a widow, Ainsley reluctantly returned to her family ranch for the good of her troubled son. She was suspicious to find the Circle S failing -- and a distant, oddly callous Trent in charge. Yet his stormy gaze heated her blood, leaving her parched for his former affection, and his unsettling manly presence tempted her like cool summer rain.

Genres: Romance

253 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1987

About the author

Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of over ninety-five novels, including the Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya Series, the Pescoli and Alvarez Series, the Savannah series, and numerous stand alone novels. She also is the co-author of One Last Breath, Last Girl Standing, and the Colony Series, written with her sister and bestselling author Nancy Bush, as well as the collaborative novels Sinister and Ominous, written with Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. There are over thirty million copies of her novels in print and her writing has been translated into twenty languages.

Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.

With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.

Visit http://www.LisaJackson.com where you can find a Media Kit with photos and more information.

Reviews

[ashbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes all you need from a book is for it to be exactly what you expected and hoped it'd be. And this book achieved that fully.
Cute and simple story. And a quick read overall. Reads like a romcom, and honestly, i think it'd adapt into a movie perfectly.

My biggest hesitation about this book after picking it up was the kid. I tend to avoid media with kids in it, where I can, especially kids who misbehave. But Korey was fine. He was a good kid and although he played an important role, his presence didn't overshine anything and did not take away from the romance.

I'm a sucker for a guy like Trent. Stoic but desperately and quietly in love. I pictured a slightly more rugged version of Anthonty Perkins (thanks to the cover), and loved it.

This is one of those books where it would be a much shorter story if everyone would just communicate a little better, but honestly, I love those stories because I love the tension. It just makes the characters look a little stupid once in a while (protagonist Ainsley in particular) for jumping to conclusions.

My only qualm with the book was near the end. Just a tiny thing. A small trope that always botjers me. But I don't like when characters suddenly change their mind about someone ONLY AFTER they risk their lives for them. But I get it and it works.

[Laura L · Rating 1 out of 5]

The idea of someone being expected to start looking for a husband only months after their first husband died just really bothered me.

[Darla Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Trent and Ainsley - OMG! The chemistry of these 2! I love this book! Money, oil, family. Loved it!