In this latest in Carr's beloved new "Sullivan's Crossing" series, a teenager assays his first big relationship, a widow decides she's ready for romance, and tough-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside Sully, the area's namesake, revisits love past age 70. With a 300,000-copy first printing.

After saying farewell to her high-pressure life in Chicago and coming to Timberlake, CO, to run the local clinic, it doesn't take Dr. Leigh Culver long to know she's made the right decision. She loves the town, the people, the slower pace, and, surprisingly, she might even come to care for Rob Shandon, widowed pub owner and single father of two teenage sons. The only thing she misses is the aunt who raised her, so how wonderful that Aunt Helen, a globe-trotting mystery writer, has come to visit. Now Helen can discover, as well, that there is more to Colorado to love than one would imagine. VERDICT Realistic, down-to-earth folks you'll want to call friends, a Rocky Mountain setting as picturesque and appealing as they come, and two poignant love stories add another superb chapter to a series that will please both romance and women's fiction fans. Carr (The Family Gathering) lives in Las Vegas, NV.