
His feelings still run deep, and this time his boy's fallen for her, too. Years ago the farmer would've done anything to be noticed by Ann, and it seems nothing's changed. She's got her whole life on track-but she never planned on Dean Pryor or his gap-toothed five-year-old son. But when her ailing father needs her to temporarily run the spread, she's back-successful, accomplished.and engaged. Ten years ago Ann Billings left her Oklahoma ranch behind and headed to the big city. Can she stand up to her father, and make Rex see that her future lies within his arms? Callie is drawn to her good-looking and protective boss, too, but her overbearing dad already has a new husband picked out for her. But there's something about Callie-and it's not just her delicious cooking and adorable baby daughter. He only intends to run Straight Arrow Ranch temporarily-soon enough he'll head back to the city he loves. Rex Billings hires young widow Callie Deviner as a housekeeper to help care for his ailing father and rambling home. If you like that sort of thing, you can have my copy, since this definitely not a a "must reread" genre for me.Prodigal Ranch Series - Arlene James - Paperback The strong Christian ethic made me feel a little less guilty about my addiction to throwaway literature, but really this was a pretty average example of the cheap romance novel. Pretty predictable mediocre mass market paperback romance, but it was just good enough that I could play along and pretend the story was realistic, and, as is usually the case with cheap romance novels (classy or trashy), I got sucked in and had to read most of it in one sitting. Surely young and unconventional Nicole can't be a woman called to be a pastor's wife, but then why can't Marcus stop getting involved in her life? At the same time he's thrown into the struggles of Nicole and Beau Archer, siblings suffering under the rule of an alcoholic father. Celebrating his 30th birthday, Marcus wonders when God will answer his prayer for a wife.

Part of the Love Inspired Christian Romance series, James's A Love So Strong tells the story of Pastor Marcus Wheeler, whose sisters' stories were told in early books by James.
