Publisher's Weekly Review
Fans of Gregory (Wolf River) excited to see her first solo effort in four years will be disappointed by a paint-by-numbers premise and paper-thin villain. Divorcee Sophie McPhee comes home to tiny Lonesome Way, Mont. Determined to ignore the elderly townswomen who want to marry her off, she plans to focus on opening a new bakery. Then she encounters her onetime crush, rancher Rafe Tanner, a single father trying to keep his 11-year-old daughter's life stable. Despite their intentions, Rafe and Sophie fall in love, interrupted by a cowboy jealous of both. Sophie's touching backstory mitigates Rafe's cookie-cutter history, but a false note is struck by Sophie's overreaction to her widowed mother's new boyfriend, who Sophie irrationally assumes is a bully like her father. Both leads are well rendered and deserve better than this skimpy plot. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Sophie McPhee feels like a failure when she returns home to Lonesome Way, Montana. After refusing to have a baby with her, her husband left her for his pregnant girlfriend. Sophie sold her bakery business as part of the divorce, and is now back at the family ranch with her sympathetic mother. Her grandmother and her friends have a list of bachelors for Sophie to choose from, but all she wants to do is lick her wounds and start a new bakery business. No man is appealing to her, except for her first crush, Rafe Tanner. Rafe is her best friend's brother and was the source of many of her schoolgirl dreams. No longer the town bad boy, he is now a single father, raising his preteen daughter, Ivy. As with any good romance, complications get in the way of true love as Gregory tells a charming tale of two emotionally burdened people with extremely likable characters and the perfect degree of tension to keep things interesting.--Engelmann, Patty Copyright 2010 Booklist
