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The McIntyre Men #6
Oklahoma Sunshine
I hope to release OKLAHOMA SUNSHINE before the end of 2018. (as of 10-2018)
COVER COMING SOON! THIS ONE IS A PLACEHOLDER.
Sunny is known around Big Falls as the woman who lives up to her name. She’s upbeat, friendly, talented and kind, and her bakery, Sunny’s Place, is a fixture in the small town. She’s everything Jason McIntyre wants in a woman. But all that changes when her shadowy past shows up to destroy the life she’s built. A woman from her past with every reason to hate her, a boy who’s torn between his mother’s anger and his love for Sunny, and a wealthy, powerful man is on their hells, a man who will destroy them all if he ever tracks them down.
COVER COMING SOON! THIS ONE IS A PLACEHOLDER.
Sunny is known around Big Falls as the woman who lives up to her name. She’s upbeat, friendly, talented and kind, and her bakery, Sunny’s Place, is a fixture in the small town. She’s everything Jason McIntyre wants in a woman. But all that changes when her shadowy past shows up to destroy the life she’s built. A woman from her past with every reason to hate her, a boy who’s torn between his mother’s anger and his love for Sunny, and a wealthy, powerful man is on their hells, a man who will destroy them all if he ever tracks them down.
- GenresRomance
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First published February 5, 2019
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About the author
Maggie Shayne
261 books2,583 followersI live in the teeny, tiny town of Taylor, NY, (Alliteration Alert!) though my mailing address is Cincinnatus, my telephone exchange is Truxton and I pay taxes and vote in Cuyler. All of these are at least in the same rural county in the southern hills of New York State; Cortland County. There are more cattle than people here. The nearest “big” cities are Syracuse and Binghamton and they are an hour away, in different directions, and not really all that big by most standards, though they both seem humongous to me. I look out my window to see rolling, green, thickly forested hills, wildflower laden meadows and wide open blue, blue skies. My road is barely paved. The nearest neighboring place is a 700 acre dairy farm.
My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.
No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)
That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!
And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)
Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.
Glory is not amused.
She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.
My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I
My house is a big, century old farmhouse. I moved in here after my divorce in 2006. Just a little over a year later, the house, which I had named, SERENITY, burned. It was 99% gutted, and I lost my two dogs, Sally, an 11-year-old great Dane, and Wrinkles, my 14-year-old, blind bulldog. This was the culmination of my Dark Night of the soul, which had seemed to hit me all at once in 2006-2007. My mother died that year, after a 14 month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was only 60. The youngest of my five daughters had left home that same year, and while that’s not a tragedy at all, it felt like one to me. Then came the divorce. And finally there was the fire--it seemed my darkest night wasn’t quite finished with me after all. I had lost almost everything before that point, and as I poked through the wet ashes and soot the next day, I realized that I had now been stripped all the way to the bone.
No better time to start over. (And no, I didn’t come to that realization that day--there were a few days of wallowing in pity first, particularly the day after the fire, when I hit a deer and smashed up my car, which I was practically living in!)
That’s when I started to laugh. Just sat on the side of the road as the deer bounded, uninjured and carefree, out of sight, and laughed. It was just too ridiculous at that point, to do anything else!
And from there, I picked myself up, and brushed myself off, and said, okay, there’s only one way to go from here. Forward. And that’s what I did. There I was at the age of harrurmphemmph, living in my one, mostly undamaged remaining room, with a dorm-sized mini-fridge, a futon, a TV, my cat (nine lives!) and a laptop. And not much else. (Though thank goodness the room that survived the fire, was a room that had its own attached bathroom!)
Since then I have rebuilt my beloved home, which really has become my haven, my “Serenity.” I share it now with my fiancé, Lance, and we have accumulated quite the little family together. “Little” being a relative term. We have a pair of English Mastiffs, Dozer and Daisy, who weigh 203 pounds and 208 pounds respectively, and a little pudgy English Bulldog named Niblet, who is bigger than both of them, inside her mind. We also have the aforementioned cat, Glorificus (“Glory” for short,) who adores her canine pups and keeps them firmly in line. And we've acquired a pair of stray cats as well, a mother and son, Luna (Lulu for short) and Butters aka Buddy. Lulu showed up pregnant during a lunar eclipse, had a litter, and vanished again. We found homes for all the kittens except one. Butters. We got him fixed and kept him. A few months later, Lulu returned, again expecting. This litter was born on the "Monster Moon." Again, all the kittens were spayed and neutered and placed in homes, and this time we got Lulu to the vet in time to spay her before the cycle could repeat.
Glory is not amused.
She has a story of her own, my old Glory cat, having been with me before the Dark Times descended, she went through it all with me, moved with me, survived the fire, and remains with me still. She's tolerating the newcomers. Barely.
My partner is an artist, a mechanic, a welder and an inventor, and the rumors are true, he is much younger than I
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February 23, 2019
This story starts off with the couple already together and the hero is ready to propose. On his journey to proposing his girlfriend turns him down, then she falls and hurts herself and then we find out that Jason doesn’t really know the woman he has dated for five years. Sunshine had a secret life and is possibly running from someone.
She even fakes amnesia to throw him and his family off, but Jason’s family is one big family that takes care of the ones that are theirs.
Sunny’s past was not the best and while on the run again Jason I loved still tried his very best to help her even through the lies.
And Jason’s family loved them also they all were a big help and had a lot to do with this couple finding their happily ever after.
She even fakes amnesia to throw him and his family off, but Jason’s family is one big family that takes care of the ones that are theirs.
Sunny’s past was not the best and while on the run again Jason I loved still tried his very best to help her even through the lies.
And Jason’s family loved them also they all were a big help and had a lot to do with this couple finding their happily ever after.
February 10, 2019
Happiness at last
I love Maggie Shayne's world of Big Falls as I absolutely adore the Brands and the whole extended family. Jason and Sunny's story is just as good as all the others. Starting with a rejected proposal and a secret Sunny hadn't wanted to come out leads to the family coming together to help create a new start for Sunny and Jason with no secrets but a whole new life
I love Maggie Shayne's world of Big Falls as I absolutely adore the Brands and the whole extended family. Jason and Sunny's story is just as good as all the others. Starting with a rejected proposal and a secret Sunny hadn't wanted to come out leads to the family coming together to help create a new start for Sunny and Jason with no secrets but a whole new life
May 15, 2021
Oklahoma Sunshine
Geez, Maggie Shayne! Get a new person to check for errors before going to print!
I couldn’t wait to read Jason’s story line after reading Rob’s a d Joey’s story! Highlights were Jason’s craft, Eve, and how Jack ended up not being a total waste of a human being.
Maggie Shayne’s Brand women series were far better reads all around.
Geez, Maggie Shayne! Get a new person to check for errors before going to print!
I couldn’t wait to read Jason’s story line after reading Rob’s a d Joey’s story! Highlights were Jason’s craft, Eve, and how Jack ended up not being a total waste of a human being.
Maggie Shayne’s Brand women series were far better reads all around.
March 29, 2023
Wow
Wow.. Talk about a different story! I believe some of these stories are written from true life experiences of someone and names changed to protect those that are inferred in this book! And the way they tracked Sunny was actually very clever! Had Eve had her way, they would have gotten away but I guess Braxton knew her better!
Wow.. Talk about a different story! I believe some of these stories are written from true life experiences of someone and names changed to protect those that are inferred in this book! And the way they tracked Sunny was actually very clever! Had Eve had her way, they would have gotten away but I guess Braxton knew her better!
November 20, 2024
Review
She lost her mother and was left with a father who poisoned the mind of his infant son against her. Her father and brother became white supremest and forced her to participate in racial protest. When she went to college, her eyes were opened to all colors of people and she fell in love with a black man who was killed by her father’s group.
Enjoy
She lost her mother and was left with a father who poisoned the mind of his infant son against her. Her father and brother became white supremest and forced her to participate in racial protest. When she went to college, her eyes were opened to all colors of people and she fell in love with a black man who was killed by her father’s group.
Enjoy
February 7, 2019
Good story, as always! It was nice to get Sunny's story, and it was well written. Intense, but I'm glad that Sunny came out of the situation okay, and with Jason.
This series is very much recommended.
This series is very much recommended.
February 11, 2019
Another Great Read!
As always, I enjoyed reading what's happening in Big Falls, OK. This book has it all! The excitement, the mystery, the Love, the Hate, and the determination to keep their loved ones safe! This was a great read and I can't wait to recommend it to others.
As always, I enjoyed reading what's happening in Big Falls, OK. This book has it all! The excitement, the mystery, the Love, the Hate, and the determination to keep their loved ones safe! This was a great read and I can't wait to recommend it to others.
February 14, 2019
Wonderful
Thank you Maggie Shayne. I so look forward to your books. I love Vidalia and now the McIntyres. That Jason looks deeper than the surface and the way Big Falls surrounds the townspeople. Such good storytelling.
Thank you Maggie Shayne. I so look forward to your books. I love Vidalia and now the McIntyres. That Jason looks deeper than the surface and the way Big Falls surrounds the townspeople. Such good storytelling.
March 13, 2019
Great love story
I love all of the books in these series. I hope to see more in the future. I am already missing Big Falls..lol. I want to see more babies and more family members added to this great hometown.
I love all of the books in these series. I hope to see more in the future. I am already missing Big Falls..lol. I want to see more babies and more family members added to this great hometown.
December 26, 2022
Oklahoma Sunshine (The McIntyre Men book 6)
Sunny and Jason's story was a long time in coming but well worth the wait! A beautiful love story that shows you don't have to know a person to KNOW them.
Sunny and Jason's story was a long time in coming but well worth the wait! A beautiful love story that shows you don't have to know a person to KNOW them.
September 18, 2023
Hate this series ended!
This book was just as exciting as the books in this series! Live your books and am excited to start a new series. Keep the continuing story lines coming as I love reading all the family members I meet through your books. Thanks!
This book was just as exciting as the books in this series! Live your books and am excited to start a new series. Keep the continuing story lines coming as I love reading all the family members I meet through your books. Thanks!
October 7, 2023
Mary, Mary quite contrary.....
How does your bakery grow - with Sunny as the owner and Jason as her feller and the McIntyre's all on the phone. The McIntyre/Brand hoard have a unique way of communication. Another great love story from Maggie Shayne that you just have to read!
How does your bakery grow - with Sunny as the owner and Jason as her feller and the McIntyre's all on the phone. The McIntyre/Brand hoard have a unique way of communication. Another great love story from Maggie Shayne that you just have to read!
November 11, 2024
The Book
This book keeper my interest all the way through to the end a very sad stories that keeped you on the edge of your seat hoping that thing would turn out right for them all
This book keeper my interest all the way through to the end a very sad stories that keeped you on the edge of your seat hoping that thing would turn out right for them all
February 6, 2019
great story. loved the characters. It was great learning about who Sunny is. And finding out the Kiley's dad can be a good guy when he wants to be. Please keep them coming.
February 7, 2019
Well written!
Been along time coming, but at last Jason is going to ask Sunny to marry him. The only problem is Sunny has a past that Jason doesn't know about!
Been along time coming, but at last Jason is going to ask Sunny to marry him. The only problem is Sunny has a past that Jason doesn't know about!
February 10, 2019
One great book
The latest installment in the Big Falls series is just as good as all the rest. It keeps you guessing, what next?
The latest installment in the Big Falls series is just as good as all the rest. It keeps you guessing, what next?
December 24, 2020
Loved it
The story had so much action and kept you reading to see what happened next. I loved this whole series.
The story had so much action and kept you reading to see what happened next. I loved this whole series.
December 30, 2022
Read 15 in a row.
I read 15 books in a row. Couldn't put them down. Read one a day and immediately downloaded the next. Thank you for smart your talent with me.
I read 15 books in a row. Couldn't put them down. Read one a day and immediately downloaded the next. Thank you for smart your talent with me.
April 4, 2023
This is a fantastic series.
I love her books. That being said she often mixes up her characters in her books. She also needs a better proof reader.
I love her books. That being said she often mixes up her characters in her books. She also needs a better proof reader.
September 2, 2023
Wow what a way to end!
I didn't want to put it down from beginning to end. Maggie is so great at spinning what she calls her stories.
I didn't want to put it down from beginning to end. Maggie is so great at spinning what she calls her stories.
February 10, 2024
Wonderful book
This story just like the rest of the set is unbelievable wonderful. This is another great author added to my favorite group.
This story just like the rest of the set is unbelievable wonderful. This is another great author added to my favorite group.
July 13, 2024
Amazing book
Very good book. Kept my interest all the way through. I truly enjoyed every word and each and every character
Very good book. Kept my interest all the way through. I truly enjoyed every word and each and every character
November 2, 2024
Good Reading
What am I going to do when the series is over? I've become an addict! Each of these books Is entertaining, can't put them down once I start Reading!
What am I going to do when the series is over? I've become an addict! Each of these books Is entertaining, can't put them down once I start Reading!
January 5, 2025
Awesome book!
Awesome book! Couldn’t put it down! It started out really good. I like books that are murder romance and in series.
Awesome book! Couldn’t put it down! It started out really good. I like books that are murder romance and in series.
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