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A decade after leaving Texas, Leigh Merrill is returning to the Lone Star State as the featured speaker at the Austin Writers' Conference. The Harvard-educated Manhattanite charms the audience even as her assured facade masks desperation: a day of reckoning looms. Leigh's first love, Jake, has just been released from prison and recently sent her a packet of correspondence attesting to his devotion. But Leigh, feeling rejected by Jake's refusal to answer her letters while he was incarcerated, began forging a new relationship; the ardent Joseph is Texas-bound, bearing an engagement ring. Harrison, longtime host of TV's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, nicely sketches colorful central Texas venues and citizenry. Narrator Tanya Eby conquers the subtleties of regional accents and boosts the likability quotient for self-absorbed Leigh. VERDICT Listeners counting on Leigh's overdue coming of age will be gratified, as will Harrison fans anticipating an entertaining romance. ["Fans of the shows Harrison hosts will likely have requests for this book. If his name was not on the cover, it would not be worth the purchase": LJ Xpress Reviews 3/20/15 review of the Dey Street: HarperCollins he.]