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In the case of His Callahan Bride’s Baby by Tina Leonard, the time seemed to stretch forever (in reality it was about 2 hours), and I don’t think I really understood much of the story. To be fair, this is book ten of the Callahan Cowboys series in the American Romance line. However, I think …Read More ( )

Their are about 10 books in the Callahan Cowboys and I have now read three of them. So I have missed a lot of why they are fighting so much. Or the secrets they know. The one thing the Callahan's are fighting for family and to stop drug dealers from using their land to cross through. They have a big family. They have served in the milatary.

Falcon asks the waitress Taylor to marry him after he was served the last beer before closing. The owner says she would be marrying down. It would not be a smart move for her. She makes a deal that she will set Taylor up with all the dates she can and if she chooses Falcon then it is her choice.

Falcon agrees to let the town throw guys at Taylor. Then he talks her into a late night date with him to go ghost hunting. While they walking out on the ranch Falcon disappears. Taylor picks up the flash light thinking that Falcon is going to jump out of nowhere to scare her, or he fell off a cliff or someone took him. She then hears fighting and runs back to the truck for the rifle and loads it. She finds Falcon fighting a big guy, another guy is waiting to hit him and two women. She fires the rifle hitting the waiting guy in the toe and breaks up the fight. Great first date.

Another time Taylor goes to the ranch and some other guy is shot on the ranch. Taylor and Falcon have a hard time dating because different guys,kidnapping,town setting up blind dates. Just one thing after another everytime it looks like things are starting to workout something else happens.

I like how Falcon reacts to the idea he will be a father to a little girl. Also how protective of his little girl he is. I wish that I could see more of Falcon and Taylor growing closer instead of jumping from one situation to another. The best part of the book I think is Falcon attitude with his daughter.

I wish all the Callahan Stories were together in one volume so I would remember better the different storylines.

I was given this ebook to read and asked to give honest review of it by Netgalley.
Publisher: Harlequin (April 2, 2013) 224 pages ISBN-10: 0373754493 ( )

Good book. I liked both Falcon and Taylor though I must say they had a strange romance. Falcon has known Taylor for about a year, though they've never gone out. He is drawn to her and figures she'll do as the bride he needs to inherit the ranch. He proposes but is kindly refused. The ladies of the town feel that she can do better so he is told to leave her alone until Christmas and then see if he still feels the same way. He tries to work around the rules set down and manages to get Taylor alone at the ranch with him when they are attacked. Taylor helps fight them off but their night is pretty wrecked. He realizes he's going to have to play by the rules. There is another time when he comes to protect her and they end up making love and she gets pregnant. Now he is determined to get her to marry him but there are a lot of things that get in the way, not the least of which is her getting kidnapped. Falcon seems to do a lot of waffling. First he is going all out to get her to marry him. Then he backs off. When he finds out about the baby it's on again. The one thing he never does is talk about his feelings. When Taylor is kidnapped he finds it incredibly hard to follow his grandfather's advice and wait to rescue her. He begins to get an idea of his feelings but still never talks about them with Taylor. I did love the way that he became instantly in love with baby Emma and turned into Mr Overprotective. It was very sweet. I also liked seeing the way that it took an intervention from his family to see what he was doing.

Taylor had had a crush on Falcon for a long time. While she loved hearing the proposal he offered, it meant nothing without the love that needed to be there first. She was sure that if she spent enough time with him she would give in so she tried to avoid him when she could. When she and Falcon ended up having that one passionate night, she knew she had fallen but she was still holding out hope for love. While she was glad that he was happy about the baby, she didn't want that to be the reason they married so she still refused him. I wasn't really thrilled with the way she was going out with Benton even after she found out about the baby. It seemed a bit like manipulation to me. I was glad when she finally went to Falcon and they started talking about getting married. When she was kidnapped I liked the way she was able to keep her confidence up that she hadn't been abandoned when time went by and she wasn't rescued. She seemed to kind of withdraw from him a bit after Emma was born and he spent all his time with the baby, making her think that was all he really wanted. I loved her part in the confrontation at the end.

It will be interesting to see how this story continues and what happens with the uncle. I'm looking forward to seeing the other brothers as they meet their matches. ( )