Dear Friends and Neighbors:
How did life become so complicated? One minute I'm dating
the hottest man in Dallas and the next I'm back in Cedar
Dell, Texas, surrounded by grannies, gossip, and green bean
casserole -- and helping my dad recuperate from a car
accident. Did I happen to mention that I caused a scandal
in town when I got pregnant at seventeen? No one has ever
forgiven me -- not my hard-hearted father, my brother Mr.
Perfect, or my pregnant-for-the-first-time-at-forty sister
who's gone totally hormonal.
As if this weren't enough, who should also be back in town
but Max Cooper, the former high school football star, who
is my teenage son's father. And now he wants to date me?!
Who ever thought that so many new horizons and second
chances would open for me during one long, hot Texas
summer?