Synopsis:
Shey Darcy, a 39-year-old former
top model for Vogue and Sports Illustrated, led a charmed life in New
York City, with a handsome photographer husband until the day he
announced he’d fallen in love with someone else. Left to pick up the
pieces of her once happy world, Shey decides to move back home to Texas
with her three teenage sons. Life on the family ranch, however, brings
with it a whole new host of dramas starting with differences of opinion
with her staunch Southern Baptist mother, her rugged but overprotective
brothers, and daily battles with her three sons who are also struggling
to find themselves.Add to the mix Shey’s ex-crush, Dane Kelly, a national bullriding champ and she’s got her hands full. It doesn’t take long before Shey realizes that in order to reinvent herself, she must let go of an uncertain future and a broken past, to find happiness—and maybe love—in the present.
Review: I LOVED this book. Every girl in the South (including Texas) has been a rodeo fan at one time or another- it comes with the horse thing! Porter's heroines always have resonated with me- they are always believable. In this story the author has 3 sons- when have you seen that in a book recently? Porter deals with the realities of divorce and kids in a great way-her characters emotions are raw and justified, and sometimes hard to take, but understandable and logical.
The back story of the family and the long-held sibling issues fleshes out the characters and storyline nicely and makes you feel like you really have gotten to KNOW these characters. I really could see this book made into a series, or maybe a movie. It may be 'chick lit', but it was a great end of summer read and I really enjoyed it! This isi definitely a book to pick up and savor in those quite moments when the kids are at school!
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