Description:An affair with a younger man...
Janie
Holcomb is a thirty-nine-year-old mother with two grow-up children
who’ve just left the homestead to find their new lives at university.
John’s
been her loving and loyal husband since high school when he put his
hands to work to provide for his beloved but unexpected family.
Together they raised two smart and capable kids, ran a homestead, and built up a valuable snow plow business.
Young
strangers in their home is nothing new; they’ve hosted teenagers from
all over the world—offering room and board in trade for farm chores. It
helped their own kids learn firsthand about foreign cultures and they
forged friendships around the globe.
When their son finds a
Home Exchange program through his university, John and Jane are all for
it. Evan’s going to spend six weeks in Italy—he’ll be swapping bedrooms
and families with an art student from Rome.
It’s nothing new for the Holcombs—except this isn’t a kid staying with them this time, it’s a twenty-year-old man.
Maceo
DeSanctis is an artist. He’s tall, striking, talented. He has
smoldering dark eyes. Their daughter and her college friends notice.
Janie notices, too, but Maceo is half her age.
John drives
plow, and when the winter storms come he’s away from the homestead
sometimes as long as forty hours. Janie’s all alone with Maceo, and the
young man is charming and thoughtful.
Janie dropped out of high
school to give birth. There were things she missed, a promised part of
her life taken away so she could raise her children. She wouldn’t have
it any other way. But spending time with Maceo pulls the blinds from
that part of her that was missing. She’s an artist, too, and there’s so
much she can learn, and this amazing young man wants to teach her...
This is the first book in a series.
Maceo
arrives from Italy and greets the Holcomb family and arrives at their
homestead. Janie shows him the way to his school and introduces him to
rural American life. His charm and warmth bring something out of her.
They begin painting together and she cherishes the lessons he has for
her...