Midnight Sun
Ashley Stephens Jennings could not be more shocked. Ashley would have bet money that her father never forgave her for falling in love with Trevor Daniels eight years earlier, but now she finds out that he has willed her the Stephens Timber Corporation. Running a multimillion-dollar company is challenging enough for Ashley, but Trevor’s efforts to reinsert himself back into her life further complicate matters. Currently campaigning for an open senate seat in Oregon, Trevor still believes that Ashley’s father had something to do with his own father’s mysterious disappearance. Add this to a convenient “accident” engineered to convince him to drop out of the race, and Trevor thinks he has more than enough ammunition to get Ashley to meet with him. Their meeting takes an unexpected turn, however, when they realize that they are still deeply in love. This early effort (circa 1985) from best-selling Jackson skews more towards the romance side of romantic suspense, but the author’s fans will still enjoy the self-actualized heroine and an abundance of sexy passion in the fast-paced plot. --John Charles