Review: What a beautiful story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2012
I really loved this book. It never dragged on and it was never boring. Callie met Reed when he was a prisoner and used him to have a baby in return for saving his life as he was about to be hung. She had a rough life constantly being used by men and to her having a baby would ensure no man would want to be with her so she could live peacefully and not get hurt again. She knew that Reed was the one man who she might have ever been able to depend on she would never see again. But, four years later they did meet again. They began to get to know each other and start a relationship only to encounter multiple problems such as an old friend who was desperate and would do anything to marry Callie and Reed encountering problems with the law. There were an unusual amount of grammatical errors and while annoying they did not really take away from the story any. In the beginning Callie had fears he might want to take their son away from her but that is simply historically inaccurate as unwed fathers didn't gain any legal standing until the time of the modern feminist movement in the 1970s. Historically speaking, the only thing a woman in her position would have to be afraid of would have been the townsfolk finding out the child wasn't her late husbands but instead was illegitimate as her reputation would be damaged. All in all, it was a good read. It was romantic, action filled and there was nothing really graphic, sexually explicit or offending in the book. A must read for anyone who loves a good action-filled historical romance.