Summer of Two Wishes

July 6, 2009
Bestseller London (The Book of Scandal
) puts her historical romances aside to pen a contemporary heartbreaker inspired by post-9/11 patriotism. Macy and Finn Lockhart work hard and love deeply on their horse ranch in Texas until Finn joins the army and is killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Three years later, Macy has glued herself together enough to put the ranch up for sale and marry land broker Wyatt Clark. Then comes the paralyzing news that Finn is alive and coming home. Macy suddenly has two husbands and must decide where her future lies. Difficult choices lead to bad behavior all around, and while London knows how to keep pages turning, the lack of sympathetic characters may leave readers struggling more with their personal feelings about war and grief than with the tension of the story.

September 1, 2009
When her beloved husband, army sergeant Finn Lockhart, escapes Taliban captivity after three years, during which he was presumed dead, Macy has some hard decisions to make. Should she return to Finn, whom she never stopped loving, or remain with Wyatt, her indulgent new land-developer husband of only seven months? Complicating matters, Finns family heritage, the five-generation Lockhart ranch known as Two Wishes, is about to be sold by Wyatt in order to build a high-end resort. So Finn, formerly one of the best cutting-horse trainers in the business, returns to find he has no home, wife, or means of livelihood. Londons passionate and heart-wrenching novel, set in the small central Texas town of Cedar Springs, explores the reactions and perspectives of diverse characters caught up in the larger drama of a nation at war, and the issues faced by families adjusting to new realities when their loved ones return significantly changed, or not at all.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)