Title: Trouble in paradise
Description: After her divorce, bestselling romance author Mary Jane Marsh Simmons decided to move all seven of her girls out the big city and back to her small hometwon of Nacona, Texas. So when the last remaining relative of Miz Raven died and the Paradise was put on the market, she bought it, an old house that had been a brothel during the cattle trail days in Spanish Fort, Texas. Joe Clay Carter had just retired from twenty years in the Marines, Special Forces. He'd lived through wars and rumors of wars and decided to go home to Nacona to do nothing but play poker, draw his retirement check, and enjoy life. Two weeks later he was bored stiff, his motel room closing in on him, and he was seriously thinking of reenlisting. Suddenly, his high school crush, Mary Jane, appeared at his door asking him to remodel her new house.
Subjects: Fiction, Home ownership, Women novelists, Mothers and daughters, Remodeling, Divorced mothers, Dwellings, Fiction, sagas, Texas, fiction, Authors, fiction, Divorced people, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary
Places: Texas