title: The Long Way Home
author: Reavis, Cheryl
description: THE LAST THING RITA NEEDED WAS MORE TROUBLE....
  Spitfire Rita Warren had made some big mistakes before leaving her hometown and heading for the bright lights of the big city.  Now she was back, to make things right.  To prove that she was a good as everyone else in town.  Good enough to love.  Good enough to deserve the best....
  
  LIEUTENANT "MAC" MCGRAW HAD TROUBLE WRITTEN ALL OVER HIM!
  .  Though the sexy officer was ornerier than a bee-stung bear, Rita could see right through the bluster to the man underneath -- a soldier tormented by memories.  But McGraw was too good a man to bury himself with guilt.  Too good a man to deny himself a family.  And Rita was the woman to prove to him the best was yet to come....