WHEN JACK CAME BACK

Author: Kathryn Kearney 5/2004 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: Scheherazade Tales Romance E-Novels

Amidst a storm of scandal, Jack McCready left the small Australian town of Serenity eight years ago, and broke the heart of eighteen-year-old Tess O'Malley in the process. But Tess only thought she was over what she considered her girlhood crush, and realized that it was nothing compared to the passion and desire she found re-ignited within her when Jack came back... The McCreadys and the O'Malleys had a long-running feud that would make the Hatfield-McCoy feud look like a family picnic. But Tess O'Malley always considered the feud to be silly and wanted nothing more than to bring peace to the two feuding families. A dispute over ownership of a strip of land separating the neighboring McCready and O'Malley properties was a bone of contention for many years, and now that Jack was back, he was offering to buy that strip of land outright. But as much as Tess wanted to put an end to the feud, Jack's reappearance in her life brought bad memories and burning desire that cannot be erased by a mere business proposition...can it?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Tess O’Malley had her life together. She was teaching, living in her family’s home, and had finally tried to put the last eight years of her life in order. There was only one man that had always turned her on and he had moved away. Though she thought to never see him again, he had always stayed foremost in her memory. Then all of the sudden he was back. And she didn’t want to see him.

Jack McCready has decided he wants to live in Serenity and raise a family. But he didn’t realize what seeing Tess would do to him. He couldn’t think straight around her. All he wanted to do was take her to bed. The sexual tension between the two was astounding. But Jack had a fiancé. What was he supposed to do about her, when he couldn’t keep his hands off Tess?

WHEN JACK CAME BACK by Kathryn Kearney is an emotional love story about going back. I found I could not put down the book until I had finished it. It was a fast-paced novel and the chemistry between the two protagonists kept me turning the pages until the happy ending.

Mariah LeGrand