title: Hot December
author: James, Deana
description: SHE HAS CHOICES TO MAKE...TO FIGHT FOR WHAT IS HERS...TO POSSESS THE MAN SHE LOVES
  
  SOUTH TEXAS
  It stretches inland from the Gulf with a sultry defiance. Here men plant cotton in the winter, drink bourbon in the evening and prefer to keep their women in the bedroom--pampered. pretty and satisfied. But beneath the good of boy smiles lies a hard violence that makes sure nobody forgets his place or who really runs the town.
  
  HOT DECEMBER
  Bold and beautiful Emily Ann Whitfield never forgets for a moment that she is a woman or that her place is to preserve the farmland her father loved. But it is the season for sizzling confrontations ... with the powerbrokers who want to grab everything she has ... with the defiant man who offers her everything she wants with tragedy and murder and passion ... as her life heads for an explosive conflict between betrayal and love. Sprawling and suspenseful, here is a magnificent tale from Deana James, the author of Texas Star.