Sweet Return

I first read Jeffrey's Love of a Cowboy some years ago, and knew I'd found a winner. I've read every one of Jeffrey's books since. Every time a new book comes out, I think to myself that she can't top the last one, and and this one can't be a home run. Then I read her new offering, and realize I'm wrong. Again. Jeffrey creates real characters whom I feel like I know somehow. She makes me cry, giggle, sometimes guffaw, and always she makes me care what happens to her characters. More importantly, she makes me want to WRITE. Her down-to-earth writing style makes me think "I could do that, and I want to do that." Thanks again, Ms. Jeffrey, for taking me back to West Texas, making me smell the dirt and the mesquite, and experience romance and love all over again.

Outstanding book. Very believable and real. I started reading in the morning and could not put it down until I finished it. Gripping! It was funny in places which is always nice and very thought provoking. It brings into life modern day issues and shows how a person doesn't always have to be a by-product of his or her childhood environment. Bravo Anna for a job well done.

SWEET RETURN is funny, sexy, poignant and fast paced. Dalton Parker is a hunky hero the reader cares about. Joanna is a hard-working, industrious, compassionate and caring woman who wants to save everyone in trouble. When Dalton and Joanna meet, the fun starts. I loved this book.

I really enjoyed this one. Anna Jeffrey really knows how to put it out there, she certainly did not disapoint here. The story was sweet, the passion was hot, the chemistry was awesome. Hard headed man meets strong willed women. This is stictly a romance, no suspense, bad guys or anything like that. Just a story of two lonely hearts coming together. I can honestly say, the way this ended could not have been better. The scene Anna places in your mind when you read the ending.... it will stay there... oh true love, if it were only this way in real life!! But hey, thats what books are for.... escaping for a while.

In Hatlow, Texas Joanna Walsh owns a successful beauty salon business and an equally profitable making janitorial service. However, her latest business venture has proven to smell like rotten eggs. Her close friend of thirteen years cattle rancher Clova Cherry persuaded Joanna to join her in an organic egg enterprise as a means of saving her spread. Clova has two sons; neither of which has helped her with the ranch. Lane is a drunk while Dalton is an internationally renowned photographer. When Lane ends up in an intensive care unit of Lubbock Memorial Hospital following a DUI accident, Dalton comes home from his Los Angeles base of operations to take his mom's cattle to market. Instead of cows he finds chickens and a thirty something woman who makes him dream of settling in West Texas. He accuses the chicken farmer of abusing the kindness of his mom; she accuses the wandering son of abandoning his mom fifteen years ago leaving her to struggle to pay her debts. Obviously love is everywhere when these two enemies meet. SWEET RETURN is a sweet contemporary Texas romance that sub-genre fans will enjoy reading as the lead couple is a workaholic pair who must find time in their busy regiment to battle, argue, and fall in love. Anna Jeffrey provides a warm fun tale. Harriet Klausner