The Summer of Jamie's Secret — Shirley Larson

Trisha Flannery was once a young and carefree girl who at the age of thirteen fell head over heels in love with fifteen year old city boy rebel, Jord Deverone. Now, at twenty-seven, Trisha is a responsible young woman who runs a farm and is the legal guardian of her sister's boy, Jamie. She learned the hard way that her fascination for Jord Deverone was ill placed. Jord became a big city billionaire who married her sister Dina, made Dina pregnant and then abandoned her. Now Jord, Jamie's legal father, is coming to Iowa for Jamie's fifth birthday party. Is the purpose of his trip to take Jamie away from her? How can Trisha can keep him from claiming Jamie? And after all the things he's done, how can she keep Jord from claiming her heart again? Jord Deverone is a hard-driving executive who brooks no dishonesty in his business dealings, or in his private life. Women, both married and unmarried pursue him, and they have given him a cynical outlook on women and love. There are two women in his life he respects: Virginia Deverone, his uncle's wife and Trisha Flannery. He always remembers his summers on their Iowa farm and how Virginia Deverone turned his life around with her trust of him...and how Trisha Flannery turned it upside down with her love for him.