Dianna's Rules

“She was the first woman I truly loved, and she exposed me to so many other firsts.”

It was the summer of 1958 and Tommy Leigh was just fifteen years old. But the first time he laid eyes on Dianna he knew this summer was going to be different. The dazzling dark-haired beauty with the ruby red lips was like no girl Tommy had ever dated. She was ten years older and she was all woman—and Tommy watched in bewildered amazement as she turned the heads of every man in his small Arkansas town and lived by her own rules.

As the two grew closer over the course of that one summer, Tommy Leigh would learn what it meant to love a woman—in every beautiful and painful form it took. He’d learn about loyalty, lust, friendship, growing up . . . and heartbreak. But most of all, he’d learn that if you weren’t living by Dianna’s rules, you weren’t really living at all.

About the Author:

J. Lee Butts is the author of 22 published books and numerous magazine articles and short works. His book Brotherhood of Blood was runner-up for the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2005. He’s worn many hats over the years (teacher, administrator, pool manager, IBM supervisor, and western author), and he and his late wife lived everywhere from Los Angeles to Dallas. Currently he’s hanging those hats back in White Hall, Arkansas, near the place that Dianna’s Rules all began.