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Summer Winds
Widow Maggie Tanner needs a ranch hand to work her thousand acres of Kansas hayfields. Young Cash Tate takes the job—a summer break from the city and her girlfriend troubles. Cash is irritated by and enamored of this self-sufficient rancher woman who refuses to treat her as an equal, and she vows to earn her respect. While Cash struggles to win a place in Maggie’s heart, Maggie fights her unwelcome desire to take Cash into her arms. Not one to give in to forces of nature, particularly when they’re female and fifteen years her junior, Maggie is determined to suppress her feelings. But one soft summer night, with the prairie breezes swirling over her skin like the breath of an impatient lover, Maggie Tanner has to decide whether to deny her yearnings or ride the wind.
254 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2009
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Andrews & Austin
10 books21 followersAndrews was a radio broadcaster in NYC before leaving to become Creative VP of the largest ad agency in the southeast. She later joined one of the most extensive movie studio conglomerates in the world, where she managed a division of network programming. After forming her own production company, she spent a decade in Hollywood developing and writing screenplays for studios and independents before joining an international entertainment and publishing powerhouse as a division president overseeing television production. Andrews is an accomplished writer, producer, and public speaker.
Austin is a talented Writer/Producer, a former on-air talent, and co-founder of a Hollywood production company. She has served as a segment producer for network specials and animated sports programming and has developed and optioned Movies of the Week and Theatricals for studios, networks, and independents. Prior to owning her own production company, Austin was the co-producer and on-air host of a shopping network. Austin is also a gifted astrologer and psychic. (from the publisher's website)
Austin is a talented Writer/Producer, a former on-air talent, and co-founder of a Hollywood production company. She has served as a segment producer for network specials and animated sports programming and has developed and optioned Movies of the Week and Theatricals for studios, networks, and independents. Prior to owning her own production company, Austin was the co-producer and on-air host of a shopping network. Austin is also a gifted astrologer and psychic. (from the publisher's website)
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January 11, 2022
5 Stars - WOW. Gorgeous writing. Slow burn. Pining.
Contemporary romance on a hay ranch in Kansas where the prairie and the wind are their own characters. These two ladies know who to write and its just lovely to read. Very lyrical in places without being difficult to read. The words setting the scene and evoking the emotions that go along with the setting. Just gorgeous.
Maggie is the ranch owner and having a hard time coming to terms with her feelings for Cash. Cash, the new ranch hand (and daughter of Buck, a friend of Maggie's from college) on the other hand has fallen madly in love with Maggie and is trying hard to win her over and be respectful of her feelings. The push-pull, pining and sloooooow burn were just right for me.
I loved every minute of this book. I will definitely be re-reading it.
Contemporary romance on a hay ranch in Kansas where the prairie and the wind are their own characters. These two ladies know who to write and its just lovely to read. Very lyrical in places without being difficult to read. The words setting the scene and evoking the emotions that go along with the setting. Just gorgeous.
Maggie is the ranch owner and having a hard time coming to terms with her feelings for Cash. Cash, the new ranch hand (and daughter of Buck, a friend of Maggie's from college) on the other hand has fallen madly in love with Maggie and is trying hard to win her over and be respectful of her feelings. The push-pull, pining and sloooooow burn were just right for me.
I loved every minute of this book. I will definitely be re-reading it.
May 4, 2014
A great May-December romance!
For once something different than a teacher-student love story (although it can also be very interesting).
I loved the setting.
Ranch life is so different than what I'm used to, but it can also be that it really is something very American?
It just seems magical to me, beautiful scenery as far as the eye can see and horseback riding under the stars with the woman you can take you're eyes of.
At first I was afraid that everything was happening too fast and that the pace was not right, but that was only briefly.
It was after a few more pages that I was sure it was going to be a very romantic story, and a beautiful love story.
It's about a woman who fights against love, afraid of being hurt and a young woman who experience real love for the first time and must learn to fight for what she wants.
The chemistry was great and it was a real page turner.
I wanted to know what would happen next.
I thought Cash(what a great name for this particular character)was a beautiful written sexy butch, who was a perfect match for the 15 year older Maggie who was trying to be an ice queen to protect her own heart.
I loved every page!
For once something different than a teacher-student love story (although it can also be very interesting).
I loved the setting.
Ranch life is so different than what I'm used to, but it can also be that it really is something very American?
It just seems magical to me, beautiful scenery as far as the eye can see and horseback riding under the stars with the woman you can take you're eyes of.
At first I was afraid that everything was happening too fast and that the pace was not right, but that was only briefly.
It was after a few more pages that I was sure it was going to be a very romantic story, and a beautiful love story.
It's about a woman who fights against love, afraid of being hurt and a young woman who experience real love for the first time and must learn to fight for what she wants.
The chemistry was great and it was a real page turner.
I wanted to know what would happen next.
I thought Cash(what a great name for this particular character)was a beautiful written sexy butch, who was a perfect match for the 15 year older Maggie who was trying to be an ice queen to protect her own heart.
I loved every page!
August 31, 2021
I luv this book!
August 18, 2014
Someone's bull-headedness annoyed me to the point of taking off one star... :P
Cash was a different story altogether. I loved her and would've loved to have read more about her. She's enough compensation for having to put up with Maggie's fickle-mindedness/constant state of denial. The father-daughter scenes with Buck were cute.
Cash was a different story altogether. I loved her and would've loved to have read more about her. She's enough compensation for having to put up with Maggie's fickle-mindedness/constant state of denial. The father-daughter scenes with Buck were cute.
June 2, 2021
Another book spent wishing something like this happened to me. Where is MY 45 y/o badass woman ranch owner to kick my ass all summer and then fall in love with me? 😩
June 3, 2025
i tried very hard to get into this book but i can’t do slow burns very well only some authors pull it off but this one sucked ass. i didn’t feel like there was enough chemistry between them. also the unnecessary r@pe scene threw me off, the dismissal of it altogether put a sour taste in my mouth and i absolutely despised that cash forced herself onto maggie with that kiss after what had happened to her with bo??? hello??? tf kind of trash novel is this. bad rep for wlw. this book is hella old so makes sense why the writing is incompetent but to the person that recommended this to me fuck you.
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August 18, 2019
READ IT!
I loved this book beyond words. Saying it was phenomenal does not truly describe how I everything about it.
It's modern but still has a western feel. The descriptions painted by the authors of the Kansas landscape, ranch life and a sleepy, gossipy small town grounded me firmly within the story. I could hear the creaking of worn floor boards in the ranch house, hear the engine of Maggie's beat up truck, feel the incessant wind against my face, and I swear I could feel the grit and hay irritating me as I read.
There's a 15 year age gap between Maggie and Cash, which Cash doesn't give a flying fig about. Maggie has emotionally withdrawn from the world and protects herself with starched shirts and the running of the ranch. Cash loves life and consumes it, but is totally lost. From beginning to end, they each suffer growing pains to find balanced path with each other. Some of these lessons are physically painful, some emotional. But I was captivated every step of the way.
The entire story is told in first person from Maggie's POV, but this didn't take anything away from what Cash was dealing with. These authors were able to deliver a powerful depth of character in Cash through Maggie's eyes that I never once felt I was missing any part of her story.
This is a slow burn romance cram packed with sexual tension and mild conflict. And a chapter and a half of the most intense angst I have ever read. It felt like angst grenade that had me in tears, swallowing back sobs. The emotional pain so intense my chest hurt, and my jaw ached from clenching through every word. But it was so well written I didnt care. At the end of it, I almost felt scrubbed clean from the inside out.
I wish I could forget having read this book so I could read it again. This is a beautiful story filled with humor, self discover, fear, and love.
READ IT!!
I loved this book beyond words. Saying it was phenomenal does not truly describe how I everything about it.
It's modern but still has a western feel. The descriptions painted by the authors of the Kansas landscape, ranch life and a sleepy, gossipy small town grounded me firmly within the story. I could hear the creaking of worn floor boards in the ranch house, hear the engine of Maggie's beat up truck, feel the incessant wind against my face, and I swear I could feel the grit and hay irritating me as I read.
There's a 15 year age gap between Maggie and Cash, which Cash doesn't give a flying fig about. Maggie has emotionally withdrawn from the world and protects herself with starched shirts and the running of the ranch. Cash loves life and consumes it, but is totally lost. From beginning to end, they each suffer growing pains to find balanced path with each other. Some of these lessons are physically painful, some emotional. But I was captivated every step of the way.
The entire story is told in first person from Maggie's POV, but this didn't take anything away from what Cash was dealing with. These authors were able to deliver a powerful depth of character in Cash through Maggie's eyes that I never once felt I was missing any part of her story.
This is a slow burn romance cram packed with sexual tension and mild conflict. And a chapter and a half of the most intense angst I have ever read. It felt like angst grenade that had me in tears, swallowing back sobs. The emotional pain so intense my chest hurt, and my jaw ached from clenching through every word. But it was so well written I didnt care. At the end of it, I almost felt scrubbed clean from the inside out.
I wish I could forget having read this book so I could read it again. This is a beautiful story filled with humor, self discover, fear, and love.
READ IT!!
July 19, 2016
Maggie Tanner, a widowed rancher, needs help with the haying. Her college friend, Buck, needs a favor - take one of his wayward sons off of his hands for the summer. It sounds like a win-win proposition until Cash Tate steps foot on Maggie's property. Cash is a woman, has absolutely no experience in ranching, and stirs things in Maggie that she never thought she was capable of experiencing. As the summer progresses, Cash and Maggie draw closer to one another, although Maggie is reluctant to open her heart to taking a chance.
This story is told in first person (Maggie's point of view), so it really does offer an interesting take on her thoughts and feelings. If it was told in the third person, I think that Maggie would have come off as a rather cold, back-and-forth sort of character. But as the reader is able to see her thoughts and, if not understand them all, at least empathize with most of them, Maggie comes off as a much deeper character. At times I wanted to wallop her on the side of her head because she was so stubborn, though!
I really liked the character of Cash, who was brash and knew, for the most part, exactly what she wanted from the get go. She just had to show Maggie that they wanted the same thing, which took a long time. The book is definitely a slow burn, but I enjoy those so much more than the "love at first glance and we are just meant to be together and we know it by page twenty" romances.
The world building is really good and gives you a real taste for the Kansas prairie life. Altogether a great read; I enjoyed it quite a bit.
This story is told in first person (Maggie's point of view), so it really does offer an interesting take on her thoughts and feelings. If it was told in the third person, I think that Maggie would have come off as a rather cold, back-and-forth sort of character. But as the reader is able to see her thoughts and, if not understand them all, at least empathize with most of them, Maggie comes off as a much deeper character. At times I wanted to wallop her on the side of her head because she was so stubborn, though!
I really liked the character of Cash, who was brash and knew, for the most part, exactly what she wanted from the get go. She just had to show Maggie that they wanted the same thing, which took a long time. The book is definitely a slow burn, but I enjoy those so much more than the "love at first glance and we are just meant to be together and we know it by page twenty" romances.
The world building is really good and gives you a real taste for the Kansas prairie life. Altogether a great read; I enjoyed it quite a bit.
August 30, 2023
Maggie is a younger widow running her dead husbands ranch with the help of her old farm hand. When she needs a new second farm hand an old friend drops into her life to provide a solution to her problem. However his solution turns into a whole new problem she wasn't expecting in the form of 28 year old Cash.
This is a slow-burn romance between Maggie and Cash. Maggie is a very wishy washy character struggling to make decisions about her feelings and her life. She vacillates between being a strong hard woman who has run her own ranch for over twenty years to a unsure woman struggling with her sexuality and falling in love. She is meant to only be about 43, but her character seems to be written older which I wish the authors had embraced creating the bigger age gap.
Cash is just the amount of enthusiastic erratic young woman you would expect to be written into one of these age gap stories. The only difference is she has been written as 28 years old which isn't exactly super young. It did feel like the authors wanted to write a bigger age gap, but pulled back to keep the age gap at fifteen years and it can be felt in the way both characters are written.
There is an eclectic group of supporting characters that help build the story. Some are more lovable than others though all of them are fleshed out relatively well. My biggest issue with the book is the way it handled a sensitive topic. Trying to brush past it like it was nothing while also referencing it many times. I believe if an author feels the need to put sensitive topics into their books then they need to own it and address it not just use it as a plot point to move the story along.
Overall it is a good sapphic romance story that I enjoyed reading and did so in just a few hours.
This is a slow-burn romance between Maggie and Cash. Maggie is a very wishy washy character struggling to make decisions about her feelings and her life. She vacillates between being a strong hard woman who has run her own ranch for over twenty years to a unsure woman struggling with her sexuality and falling in love. She is meant to only be about 43, but her character seems to be written older which I wish the authors had embraced creating the bigger age gap.
Cash is just the amount of enthusiastic erratic young woman you would expect to be written into one of these age gap stories. The only difference is she has been written as 28 years old which isn't exactly super young. It did feel like the authors wanted to write a bigger age gap, but pulled back to keep the age gap at fifteen years and it can be felt in the way both characters are written.
There is an eclectic group of supporting characters that help build the story. Some are more lovable than others though all of them are fleshed out relatively well. My biggest issue with the book is the way it handled a sensitive topic. Trying to brush past it like it was nothing while also referencing it many times. I believe if an author feels the need to put sensitive topics into their books then they need to own it and address it not just use it as a plot point to move the story along.
Overall it is a good sapphic romance story that I enjoyed reading and did so in just a few hours.
March 14, 2018
Maggie Tanner needs a ranch hand for the summer and when her long time friend sent her his offspring, she was surprised to find that it was Cash Tate, a woman. Maggie becomes conflicted as she's attracted to Cash but she's young and a person of the same sex.
This book is written in the first person from Maggie's perspective. I was honestly a little annoyed with Maggie with her back and forth and stubborn nature. I did think that Cash was much more likeable as a character.
It was very much a slow burn romance, but perhaps a little too slow for my liking. Perhaps if the story was a little bit faster in its pacing, there wouldn't have been much of a rushed ending.
Summer Winds gets an okay read from me due to the rushed ending and Maggie being stubborn/wishy-washy.
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This book is written in the first person from Maggie's perspective. I was honestly a little annoyed with Maggie with her back and forth and stubborn nature. I did think that Cash was much more likeable as a character.
It was very much a slow burn romance, but perhaps a little too slow for my liking. Perhaps if the story was a little bit faster in its pacing, there wouldn't have been much of a rushed ending.
Summer Winds gets an okay read from me due to the rushed ending and Maggie being stubborn/wishy-washy.
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April 25, 2024
3.5 rounded up.
This book maintains a delightful charm throughout, yet my enjoyment waned after the events of chapter 17, which unfortunately dampened my mood. Despite this setback, the book presents a decent overall experience with its charming writing style and humorous dialogue. The ending was also just marvelous. I did encounter moments of boredom during my reading, leading to a longer duration to finish compared to my usual pace. However, I acknowledge that this is more a matter of personal preference than a critique of the book's quality.
This book maintains a delightful charm throughout, yet my enjoyment waned after the events of chapter 17, which unfortunately dampened my mood. Despite this setback, the book presents a decent overall experience with its charming writing style and humorous dialogue. The ending was also just marvelous. I did encounter moments of boredom during my reading, leading to a longer duration to finish compared to my usual pace. However, I acknowledge that this is more a matter of personal preference than a critique of the book's quality.
July 31, 2023
Such a good story. I loved Cash and Maggie, and I could totally see them working so well together. The setting was beautiful and wonderfully constructed, and the side characters really added to the narrative. Since they only really got together , I just wish there was an epilogue showing how they were still in love a few years down the track.
September 25, 2019
A very well written story with enough angst to frustrate me . I grew to hate how fast Maggie would run to her Room to avoid what she was feeling but again it was so interesting to see her let go at the end . My rate is actually 3,5
April 25, 2020
It could have been so much better, though it's better than most.
August 21, 2013
This review is from the "back cover" but I have to say... This was a wonderful read. Best love story I've read in a long time. Looking forward to reading more from these authors.
Widow Maggie Tanner needs a ranch hand to work her thousand acres of Kansas hayfields. Young Cash Tate takes the job—a summer break from the city and her girlfriend troubles. Cash is irritated by and enamored of this self-sufficient rancher woman who refuses to treat her as an equal, and she vows to earn her respect. While Cash struggles to win a place in Maggie’s heart, Maggie fights her unwelcome desire to take Cash into her arms. Not one to give in to forces of nature, particularly when they’re female and fifteen years her junior, Maggie is determined to suppress her feelings. But one soft summer night, with the prairie breezes swirling over her skin like the breath of an impatient lover, Maggie Tanner has to decide whether to deny her yearnings or ride the wind.
Widow Maggie Tanner needs a ranch hand to work her thousand acres of Kansas hayfields. Young Cash Tate takes the job—a summer break from the city and her girlfriend troubles. Cash is irritated by and enamored of this self-sufficient rancher woman who refuses to treat her as an equal, and she vows to earn her respect. While Cash struggles to win a place in Maggie’s heart, Maggie fights her unwelcome desire to take Cash into her arms. Not one to give in to forces of nature, particularly when they’re female and fifteen years her junior, Maggie is determined to suppress her feelings. But one soft summer night, with the prairie breezes swirling over her skin like the breath of an impatient lover, Maggie Tanner has to decide whether to deny her yearnings or ride the wind.
October 20, 2020
Another great romance with plenty of heat!
These ladies can write a love story that sets your heart to racing and your emotions soaring!!! If you love stories about May December romance, horses and learning about live this is definitely for you and you will love every minute!! Absolutely recommend this book!!!
These ladies can write a love story that sets your heart to racing and your emotions soaring!!! If you love stories about May December romance, horses and learning about live this is definitely for you and you will love every minute!! Absolutely recommend this book!!!
July 15, 2018
Ah, the summer winds, the restless winds...
Great storyline although I thought the Ms. Stanwick reference was a bit overrated, really. Great scenes like in the tv series the Big Valley, and some great dialogue as " I lived an inauthentic life. "
Great storyline although I thought the Ms. Stanwick reference was a bit overrated, really. Great scenes like in the tv series the Big Valley, and some great dialogue as " I lived an inauthentic life. "
October 6, 2015
this is a good book, except for the fact that maggie is such a flakey character and her indecisiveness killed me. And yeah, the rushed ending. Would've been better if the authors panned it out a bit.
February 22, 2020
This is a great book. A slow burn that had me gripped
March 10, 2020
I recommend this book
I enjoyed this book. The author 's brought the Kansas prairie alive. Slow burn love story. Thanks for a really good book.
I enjoyed this book. The author 's brought the Kansas prairie alive. Slow burn love story. Thanks for a really good book.
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