title: Lone Tree
author: O'Keefe, Bobbie
description: A California girl dares to mess with Texas.
  
  Lainie Johnson travels to the Lone Tree ranch in West Texas after her mother's death in order to meet her maternal grandfather--who doesn't even know she exists. Because of the twenty-five-year estrangement between her mother and grandfather, Lainie doesn't tell him who she is, wanting first to find out what kind of man he is before inviting him into her life.
  
  But she finds that he isn't the only man she must contend with. Reed Smith, the bossy and cocky ranch foreman, figures that Lainie is the woman for him the first time he lays eyes on her. She feels the same draw toward him, but because of the secrets she's holding, she fights it. So...just who's going to blink first?
  
  Lainie also forms a friendship with Jackie Lyn, a woman with a history with a man who's now in prison, and when he's released violence hits both Jackie and Lainie.
  
  A hard-hitting contemporary ranch romance, evolving and revolving around a family saga that spans three generations, Lone Tree will make a reader laugh, and might even makes one's eyes moisten a time or two.