The Sheriff

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Summary: Storyline from publisher
Review: Down on her luck, Mary Beth Parker is back in her hometown of Naconiche, East Texas, to claim her inheritance - a rundown restaurant and motel. The whole town pitches in to help her with this fixer upper, including J. J. Outlaw, the sheriff. But Mary Beth doesn't want his kind of help.

Who cares that J.J. thinks the world of her four-year-old daughter, Katy? Who cares that he still feels the same way about Mary Beth? Who cares that he's spending a lot of time at her place, wearing a tool belt and swinging a hammer? Shouldn't falling for your high school sweetheart be against the law?

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Summary: Good food and lots of love in the heart of East Texas
Review: This book made me hungry! Plenty of local Texas flavor (both in its delicious-sounding dishes and its colorful characters) added to the ambiance of the story, and I respected the heroine's determination to be her own woman and not to hang her life on any man. In her easy, down-home voice, Jan Hudson paints a portrait of a sexy, true-blue hero who wins our heroine's heart with a hammer, a tool belt and a bit of loving finesse. Hudson also shows the reader what's most important in life--family, roots and a great meal...and, of course, love.