A fairly decent read that had potential to be so much better. The set up for the story was ripe with angst. But all that emotional potential was sort of ignored.

This was the story of young lovers, Jack and Danielle, who were separated by the heroine's father who forced the hero to leave her when they were teenaged lovers. Then he forced her to an unwed mothers home to have their baby and give it up for adoption. Now they have both moved back to Blue Bayou. He has purchased her ancestral home and she is a widow with a young son.

I expected the son to play a bigger role in the story since it was mentioned several times that he was the center of her world. He was in there some but several important events didn't include him When their daughter turns up out of the blue looking for her birth parents no one even says 'hey you have a brother' and there is no scene where they meet.

There were many opportunities for the angst level to build but they didn't happen. The two fell back into each others arms very easily in fact she almost seemed like a Harlequin Presents heroine in the way that she couldn't control her trembling, melting response to him anytime he was near. The father also was forgiven way too easily, twice. In fact I would have preferred that she not forgive him at all.

Overall a decent read that kind of just missed the mark for me. ( )

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This is the first book in a trilogy that introduces the moss-draped splendor of the Blue Bayou.

Danielle Dupree, daughter of a prominent judge, was the closest thing to a princess the sleepy Louisiana town of Blue Bayou ever had. Her passionate teenage love affair with Jack Callahan was cut short for reasons that were never clear to Dani - but were all too obvious to Jack, the sexy bad-boy son of Judge Dupree's housekeeper.

Jack Callahan ( )