New York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer has written more than one hundred contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. She has won Romantic Times BOOKreview’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated seven times for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and five times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.
A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.
She now lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.
Un libro que me pareció un poco tonto. Lori, una viuda con un hijo de 10 años, regresa a su pueblo para la boda de su hermana gemela. Ahí, se reencuentra con Tucker, ex novio de la adolescencia de su hermana y surgen chispas. Ella siempre lo quiso pero lo veía de lejos, pues él quería a su hermana. Pasan cosas que los tienen unidos para siempre sin que él lo sepa. Cómo Tucker no iba a distinguir a su novia de su gemela, sino como todos decían, eran súper diferentes y él lo notó. Lori la cagó al ocultar el embarazo, pero como dijo el hermano de Tucker, si hubiera sido diferente a lo mejor ni siquiera estarían juntos, la verdad es que me pareció que él tenía razones para estar enojado, que lo detenían, pero también era orgulloso y la alejaba de él. Me desesperé.
I liked the book over all. Some things the author kept repeating and it became annoying. Especially the "oh, Tucker." It became too much when it was said in one conversation about 4 times. And on every other page after that.
While this book kept my interest, I really had an issue with the hero. I also had an issue with the h having to repeatedly apologize and that the H took no responsibility for some of the actions in the past. He at no point had any attempt to put himself in her shoes, nor was his expectations of what she should have done to get a hold of him realistic- if she had done that she might as well have just told everyone in town that he was her baby's father. I wasn't happy with his extended issues with the conflict but the topper for me was him wanting the h back so that he didn't have to be the disciplining parent and can go back to overindulging his son. He was so selfish and self centered in so many aspects that towards the end of the book I wasn't rooting for their happy ending but for Lori to find someone who actually deserved her. While an interesting read, this story did not meet my H expectations.
Decent book, the heroine was the shy twin who exchanged places with her sister on prom, since the sister had just broken up with the hero Tucker, they went together and spent the night, the next day he thought they would get back together but didn't and then Lori found out she was pregnant and as a scared seventeen year old, she kept her mouth shut and let her father send her away where she did try to tell Tucker the truth but didn't succeed and then she found her husband and got married, now she's a widow back for her sister's wedding and to let the now settled in town Tucker the truth.
The hero had wander-lust but the moment he saw Lori he fell for her and her son and then he learns the truth and is angry for lost time and deception.