{"product_id":"9780976876076","title":"A Gentle Rain","description":"A Connecticut heiress. A Florida cowboy. Her secret. His heart. And the very special family she's come home to find.\u003cp\u003eKara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky, she's never fit in with the stogy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at her parents' rainforest preserve in Brazil has given her a quaintly off-beat view of life. Now her beloved parents have died in a plane crash, and Kara's learned a stunning truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was adopted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer birth parents, Mac and Lily Tolbert, live and work on a backwoods cattle ranch in northern Florida. Ranch owner Ben Thocco is running out of time and money. He's going to need a miracle in order to save the ranch and care for the likable crew of unusual hands he employs, including Kara's parents and his own fragile brother Joey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKara's simple plan to find and know her birth parents unravels almost the moment Kara steps foot on Thocco land. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Deborah Smith's The Crossroads Café-- \"One of the top five romances of 2006\" Library Journal, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author: With more than 2.5 million copies in print worldwide, Deborah Smith is one of the most beloved authors of romantic, stylish, contemporary Southern fiction. Romantic times awarded Smith a Career Achievement Award and named her 1996 New York Times bestselling novel, A Place To Call Home, one of the top 200 romantic novels of the twentieth century. Deborah lives in the mountains of north Georgia with her husband, Hank.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BelleBooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034487603440,"sku":"9780976876076","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780976876076_p0.jpg?v=1763879449","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780976876076","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}