Simply so fabulous that it was nearly impossible to put down. Jodi Thomas meshes two stories in one book. INDIGO LAKE focuses on a relationship that has no likely way to be successful based on a history between two families. Jodi Thomas chooses not to minimize the importance of a generations-old feud but instead provide a clearer view of its cause. And because she is such a romantic Thomas is determined to see if there could be a possible resolution. The question is; can love heal all wounds? In the story that travels alongside the main tale, we revisit an old friendship that somehow splintered with time. Each glorious separately but together make INDIGO LAKE the very special book that it truly is.

INDIGO LAKE takes us back to Crossroads, Texas and is part of the Ransom Canyon series by Jodi Thomas.

Indigo Lake is bordered on the shores by two ranches -- neighbors by any standard but not here -- the families haven't spoken in one hundred years. Quite a long time to feud.

Blade Hamilton was blindsided when he inherited Hamilton Acres. He never knew his father and here he is on land that truly didn't look worth very much. But Blade really had nothing to base his opinion on. Blades world and career took him all over. Home wasn't a familiar concept and his mother had been less than nurturing. Blade had never thought about the fact that he had a father -- until now. Faced with generations of Hamilton's whose faces adorn the wall of the house Blade had to admit feelings that were alien.

Dakota Davis' first look at Blade Hamilton brought to mind all the stories passed from generation to generation concerning the ever-present feud and hostility between the two families. Jodi Thomas had a lot of fun fashioning these two amazing characters who were equally quick-witted. We get to know quite a lot about Dakota and her sister Maria -- two lovely but impressionable young women who live in today's world and yet pepper their thoughts and conversation with quotes from their grandmother who firmly believes in the old legends.

So Dakota is quite firm in her determination not to set foot on Hamilton soil. Dakota speaks of a curse and yet Blade begins to see their joined property as almost magical. Certainly ghostly but he didn't really believe in that -- but yet there was something ethereal about it. Something that touched him like nothing ever had done before.

The ensuing friendship shall we say between Dakota and the Hamilton as she calls him will definitely tickle your funny bone. Blade has a way of making Dakota madder than just about anything and yet he seems to not notice this at all. Delightful and engaging. A small town like Crossroads suddenly hot with action, murder, arson and who knows what else but this is a town that sticks together. Blade never knew what living in a small town was like until now.

And let us not forget revisiting Lauren Brigman, Tim O'Grady, Lucas Reyes, and Reid Collins. These four characters will forever be connected through an event that happened while they were just a bunch of wide-eyed teenagers. All have very divergent backgrounds and families. And yet there is an unmistakable unbreakable bond still very much intact even after much time has passed. They don't all agree that they consider themselves friends. But as this story unfolds these four have major roles.

Great read first time around and even more fabulous the second time. Yes, INDIGO LAKE is one to put on your to re-read shelf but then again most anything by Jodi Thomas deserves a place there. Jodi Thomas is a master of connecting the dots and that has never been more evident than in INDIGO LAKE.