Jenna's Cowboy by Sharon Gillenwater

Jenna Callahan Colby and Nate Langley were high school sweethearts but Jenna’s dad felt Nate wasn’t good enough for Jenna and sent him away.  After 9/11/01, Nate joined the Army and went to Afghanistan.  Jenna married the high school football star and had a son, Zach.  When Jenna’s husband found someone new, she divorced him and moved back to her father’s ranch to become a partner.  Jenna thinks she very content with her life until she runs into Nate in town.  Nate is home after two tours of duty in the army to help his ailing father on the family cotton farm.  The attraction between Jenna and Nate is still very strong and Nate hopes to pursue a relationship with Jenna.  However, Nate has some healing to do from post traumatic stress disorder.  He hopes to put the sleepless nights and horrors of war behind him and become the man Jenna and Zach deserve.

This is a love story with a Texas touch and the people of Callahan Crossing come across friendly and inviting.  The research for PTSD is done well by the author and you want to cheer for Nate that he’ll get better.  It’s nice to see the characters willing to stand up for the one they love and see them through the most difficult of times.  This book is the first in a series called The Callahans of Texas.