The Last Honest Woman by Nora Roberts (1988)

This is the first of the O'Hurley series, as it starts with the birth of the triplets - Abby, Maddy and Chantel, and the last two are still single. This is Abby's story, who is a young widow of a race car driver who has left her with a couple of small boys to raise on her own. She has decided to finally authorize a biography of her dead husband and hard core journalist Dylan Crosby comes to live with her family for a few weeks to interview her. (Do journalists really do that?) He has a lot of misconceptions about her, she has a lot of mistrust of him and does not plan to share the more unpleasant parts of her past with her husband. Of course in the time together he falls for her and her rambunctious and sweet boys, and she grows to trust him. She raises horses and cleans houses to make ends meet. He ends up helping with the horses, which remind him of his childhood. The whole O'Hurley family shows up for a visit - the famous sisters and performing parents. I liked the sensitivity with the older boy, who was most affected by his not too present father. Not quite sure about the title, but otherwise vintage Nora Roberts, and I haven't indulged recently.