Review: Lovers divided, lovers reunited  Great read, easy read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2014
Armando Returns is the second book in the Barboza brothers series by  Reeni Austin.  It is a wonderful second book and keeps up with the standard set by the first one.  It takes place in San Antonio, Texas.Victor Barboza and Cara Green have come to Texas to visit the ranch on which Victor and his brothers grew up.  With them is Cara’s son Isaac.  Victor has decided to propose to Cara on the Riverwalk and goes to one of the restaurants to make arrangements for a private dinner.  The manager in charge is Katie McCormack, the ex-fiancée of Victor’s brother Armando.  Victor was away at school when Armando and Katie were together so he doesn’t recognize her; but she recognizes him right away. Katie sets the plans in motion for Victor and has him tell Armando hi.  Victor does this and sets events he doesn’t know about in motion.  The other thing he tells Armando is that Katie is engaged.Katie and Armando had wanted to get married ten years before and were running away to New Mexico from Texas when they were caught by her father Judge McCormack and state troopers.  They took Armando and kept him a couple of days in jail then drugged him and took him across the border into Mexico and dropped him on a desert road.  He managed to get back to Texas where he confronted Katie and she broke things off with him.  Neither Katie nor Armando knew why her parents were so adamant that they be broken up.  Now after ten years, Armando has returned to Texas to see Katie before she marries.All three Barboza brothers, Cara Green, her son, and her mother and step-dad descend on the ranch to help Armando and by extension Ramon with the ranch. They are staying longer than planned to find out why the McCormacks wanted to break the kids up years ago.Will Katie and Armando make it this time?  What will happen to her fiancé?  What will her parents do or not do?