Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1235325 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-25
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .41 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 384 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Readers seduced by the first two books in JoAnn Ross's Callahan Brothers trilogy (Blue Bayou; River Road) will be equally charmed by Magnolia Moon. When charismatic Nate Callahan, the mayor of Blue Bayou, La., tracks down Los Angeles homicide detective Regan Hart to deliver a journal and a tidy sum in stock certificates left to her by her birth mother, Nate is surprised by Regan's reaction. She isn't interested in her inheritance, but she's stunned to learn that she's adopted. To uncover the truth about her past, Regan returns to Blue Bayou, where she delves into the mystery behind her mother's death and becomes intimately involved with Nate. Meanwhile, Nate receives temporary custody of an abused 12-year-old runaway. Ross focuses heavily on the topic of domestic violence, and her frequent moralizing may put off some readers. Others, however, will be sufficiently beguiled by the book's Southern ambiance and pleasing, if predictable, romance.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
When L.A. homicide detective Regan Hart learns from Blue Bayou's mayor, Nate Callahan, that she was possibly adopted and that the unsolved mystery of her mother's death lies in Louisiana, she goes there to find the truth, not realizing that discovering Nate is at least as important as delving into her unknown past. Regan is as single-minded and obstinate as Nate is easy-going. Neither is interested in marriage, but neither can deny the passionate attraction that grows between them as he accompanies her and paves the way for her to interview people who knew her "real" mother. Nate is the last of the three Callahan brothers (Jake in Blue Bayou [BKL Ap 1 02] and Finn in River Road [BKL S 1 02]) to fall in love for real, and how the mystery of Regan's parenthood and her ultimate admission that she can't stand to be parted from Nate form the plot resolution makes for a very satisfying conclusion not only to the book but also to Ross' sensual trilogy. Mary K. Chelton
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About the Author
JoAnn Ross has published 90 novels, has been published in 26 countries, and is a member of the Romance Writers of America?s Honor Roll of bestselling authors. She has won several writing awards, including being named Storyteller of the Year by Romantic Times. Her work has been excerpted in Cosmopolitan and featured by the Doubleday and Literary Guild book clubs.

With her husband and two fuzzy little dogs, she divides her time between the mountains of East Tennessee and the coastal lowlands of South Carolina.

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