Janie Holcomb is a thirty-nine-year-old mother with two grown-up children who’ve just left the homestead to find their new lives at university.
John’s been her loving and loyal husband since high school when he put his hands to work to provide for his beloved but unexpected family.
Together they raised two smart and capable kids, ran a homestead, and built up a valuable snow plow business.
Young strangers in their home is nothing new; they’ve hosted teenagers from all over the world—offering room and board in trade for farm chores. It helped their own kids learn firsthand about foreign cultures and they forged friendships around the globe.
When their son finds a Home Exchange program through his university, John and Jane are all for it. Evan’s going to spend six weeks in Italy—he’ll be swapping bedrooms and families with an art student from Rome.
It’s nothing new for the Holcombs—except this isn’t a kid staying with them this time, it’s a twenty-year-old man.
Maceo DeSanctis is an artist. He’s tall, striking, talented. He has smoldering dark eyes. Their daughter and her college friends notice. Janie notices, too, but Maceo is half her age.
John drives plow, and when the winter storms come he’s away from the homestead sometimes as long as forty hours. Janie’s all alone with Maceo, and the young man is charming and thoughtful.
Janie dropped out of high school to give birth. There were things she missed, a promised part of her life taken away so she could raise her children. She wouldn’t have it any other way. But spending time with Maceo pulls the blinds from that part of her that was missing. She’s an artist, too, and there’s so much she can learn, and this amazing young man wants to teach her...
This is the second book in a series.
After things went too far between her and Maceo, Janie promises herself it will never happen again. Damage was done, but it was survivable. No need for her to destroy everything. Besides, Maceo's had a huge and positive impact on her in just a short time. Her artwork has never felt more alive and the passion he's roused in her has renewed something in her relationship with her husband. But jealousy begins to worm its way into the homestead; not just her husband, her too, and hers has a more sinister edge...
KT Morrison writes stories about women who cheat and loving relationships that go too far—couples who open a mysterious door, then struggle to get it closed as trouble pushes through the threshold.
Book 2 - the continuation of beautiful story, of characters and character development. John and Janie, building a life and a family from a teen pregnancy. They’re empty nesters except they have an exchange student for 6 week.
Maceo is an artist like Janie. He sees her, and he draws and paints her. And he’s able to capture the beautiful spirit in her. The spirit that John fell in love with.
This is a story of a couple reawakening after 20+ years of family, business and household building. On seeing a drawing of Janie, Author Morrison writes these lines:
“Looking in those drawn eyes had him locked. He was frozen, mind whirling with awful feelings, twisting in knots with good feelings. The happy ones, seeing his wife the way he used to know her, the bad ones, knowing it was another man who saw it now.”
It makes John reflect on how he and Janie came together in the first place:
“There was a narrow window of time when he and Janie were carefree. A narrow window of time when that look on Janie’s face meant something huge. He’d seen that look before. And that look got her pregnant.”
There’s no regret in this story for the past: there’s only appreciation for the hard work that’s built the life and family they have. Maceo sees what they’ve built and sees the beautiful spirit underneath, and he wants it.
It’s an emotional battle for Janie: what she has, what she wants, the forbidden and temptation. And John reawakens to the benefits.
This book is far from start to finish graphic scenes, yet there’s satisfaction of a sort for all.
5 Exquisitely Crafted Stars. I’m delighted I started this series after Book 3 was published. Heading to Book 3.
Enjoyed this book till I got to the end. It is unfinished work. Don`t buy it till she brings Book 3 out. Considering Book 2 was issued in March 1919, Book 3 might never happen!
Such an incredible study of a marriage! K.T. Is a brilliant author. Her in depth examination of Janie is brilliant. Janie and John continue their beautiful journey. Janie the artist. Maceo the brilliant young artist from Italy! Maceo is their six week exchange student from Italy. Big, alpha Maceo. John is the perfect loving beta husband. Everything Janie could ever want and need! This is a sensational book. Beautiful erotic descriptive prose. Sensational main characters and excellent supporting characters give such depth to this story. So much reality! Five white hot pumping, pulsing, shooting stars!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️