Big Girls Don’t Cry

by Brenda Novak

Book 6 in the Dundee, Idaho series (2005)

Publisher: Harlequin Superromance

How do you live through a lie? What happens when you discover the man you love, the husband of your children, is also a husband and father to another family two states away?

When Isaac Russell finds it hard to believe how many business trips his brother-in-law makes to Phoenix and how upsetting it is to his sister Liz, Isaac decides to check into the situation, especially after he spots his brother-in-law Keith O’Connell at an airport headed to Boise, Idaho.

Thanks to a devastating revelation about her husband, Reenie Holbrook’s once-perfect marriage is over. For eleven years she had the life she wanted—and now it’s gone.

Reenie decides that the first step in recovering from her ordeal is to find work; after all, she has three young children to support. She’s thrilled when she lands a job at Dundee High teaching history—until Isaac Russell, the man who triggered the unraveling of her marriage, accepts a temporary position teaching science. Then she’s tempted to quit. Reenie doesn’t care if the whole town admires Isaac and she won’t admit that, secretly, she admires him, too—nor that she’s starting to feel more than just admiration for him…