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Shelby Cole had long believed she left Bad Luck–Texas behind, but when anonymous letters suggest her illegitimate child may still be alive, she is forced to return to her hometown. There she confronts her father, Judge Jerome Cole, who is reluctant to share information about her past, and re-encounters Nevada Smith, the man who once shattered her heart and whose reputation as a bad-boy still looms.
The return also invites Ross McCallum, a man wrongly convicted of murder and serving a decade of prison time, to seek revenge against Shelby and Nevada. As the summer heat rises, the web of hidden truths, possible paternity, and revenge threatens to erupt into violence, challenging Shelby’s notions of love, honor, and survival.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: Suspense/Romantic Suspense
Authors: Lisa Jackson
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