Return to Little Hills

Harlequin Superromance 1201
ISBN 0373712014
May 2004

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Award-winning journalist Edie Robinson has come home to help out. But she's back for only a month. Much as she loves her family, that's all she can take of small-town life and her elderly mother's constant complaints: "Why can't you be like your married sister? Why did you buy the single-ply toilet paper? When are you going to settle down? No wonder you're forty and still don't have a husband." When Edie meets the new school principal, Peter Darling, she's determined to fight the instant attraction she feels. After all, her stay in Little Hills, Missouri , is only temporary, while Peter and his four young daughters are happy with their new home.

But love has a way of changing perspectives. Now Edie's beginning to see her home, her family — and her future — through new eyes.

Romantic Times

"Vivid writing and believable characters make Janice Macdonald's story a good read…" ~ Romantic Times

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Gooey Butter Cake
Preheat oven to 350 ~ Makes 9 servings

2 cups all-purpose flour
3 Tbs. sugar
1/3 cup butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter
1/4 cup light corn syrup
1 egg
2/3 cup evaporated milk
sifted powder sugar

In a mixing bowl, combine the 1 cup flour and 3 tablespoons sugar. Using a pastry blender, cut in the 1/3 cup butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs ands starts to cling. Pat into the bottom of an ungreased 9x9x2-inch baking pan.

For filling, in a mixing bowl, beat the 1 1/4 cups sugar and 3/4 cup butter until thoroughly combined. Beat in the corn syrup and egg until just combined.

Add the 1 cup flour and evaporated milk alternately to the filling, beating until just combined (batter is supposed to look curdled.) Pour into crust-lined baking pan. Bake in a 350 degrees F oven about 35 minutes or until cake is nearly firm when you shake it. Cool in pan on wire rack. Sift with powdered sugar.

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