Cicada Summer — Carolyn Seabaugh

Every thirteenth summer, the cicadas returned to Wilamet, Oklahoma, and this year Susanna Foster vowed to come back, too. Once, she'd been passionately determined to right the world's wrongs, to "make a difference" in the nation's capital. But bureaucracy had led to statistics, not solutions, to pencil-pushing, not people--and certainly not passion.

So Susanna was coming home, home to simple things, trustworthy people, men who stood tall and proud. One such man had been the star of her every Washington daydream: solid, soft-spoken Lucas Grant. But as the restless cicadas stirred and sang, Susanna discovered that simple integrity could be quite intricate, and that even honest men like Lucas could harbor secrets ....