This one was hard to rate for me. I really enjoyed the authors writing style. The plot was interesting, emotionally wrenching and had me tearing up and reaching for the Kleenex. So why only 3 stars? A personal preference for mine, I don't like bitter heroines. :/ Sorry! But there is something about a bitter woman that annoys me to know end. And Taylor is VERY bitter( yes I know, she's been burned a lot in the past). But it was just hard for me to read all her angry inner monologues where she passes judgement on the entire male sex and heaps lots of suspicion on poor Reese.

So, if you don't mind the woman scorned sort of heroine, I'd say pick this up.

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This book had me in tears, had me laughing and wanting to strangle the two main characters.

You can't help but feel the pain for Widower Reece as he struggles to get over the death of both his wife and child a year ago, only to find out the child that he had raised was not his biological child.

Taylor, the woman who has only just discovered the truth, that she has raised someone else's child and not her own, is in turmoil, wondering if she will get to keep the child that she has raised as her own. She finds however that Widower Reece wants joint custody.

The tension between them is not the greatest, but you do really feel their emotions and their pain in regards to lost family and their daughter Emily.

Apart from the lack of decent tension between them I also feel that this book would have benefited in having an epilogue to really close up the story.

On the whole though this is a decent read.

OMG! Heartbreaking roller-coaster of emotions. I cannot imagine the gamut of emotions these characters felt (but new to me) author Theresa Meyers had me laughing, crying, and ready to bi*** slap a few people. I love it when I can get drawn in and involved with the characters to the point where I am talking to them. This book got to me. As a parent there is no more scary thought than losing a child. Thankfully I knew going in that there had to be a happy ending but getting there… Break out the tissues.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I enjoyed reading Taylor and Reece's story. It was a sweet story about 2 people letting go of their past and doing what was best for their child, Emily. I would have liked to see more interaction between Taylor and Reece, outside of them putting Emily first. Still, it was a story that tugged at the heartstrings and I did tear up a few times. Definitely worth reading if you want a feel-good book.

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Being a parent and a spouse I couldn't imagine loosing both my husband and child in an accident. Never hearing them laugh and play. Being alone. That is what Reece lives daily. Now getting a call from the hospital where his daughter was born, saying there was a mix-up and his daughter, the one he raised, was possibly not his biological daughter, gives him a hope he had never thought he'd have. He was going to have a second chance with his child. Well not really a second chance, a chance with a child that he never knew existed but is his blood. He thought when his family died he lost all chances of living again and now he can through her, through Emily.

Taylor just wanted to get Emily's dad to take responsibility, so she had DNA testing done to prove that he was her father. When the lab tech tells her that its genetically impossible he is, the tech also says is genetically impossible for her to be Emily's mother too. There must be something wrong, its a mistake, What is going to happen now? Meeting Reece, Taylor is petrified that he's going to take her baby from her. Shes scared hes just like every other man that has been in her life. Her father was barely around and the last man she was with left when he found out she was pregnant.

Watching both Taylor and Reece navigate this new relationship of co-parenting is heart wrenching. He loves and misses his wife and daughter but something about Taylor draws him in. He has a very hard time reconciling that he can move on, its not harmful to the memory of his wife. Now if he can get Taylor to realize hes not out to control her, but wants her to be happy and loved.

Easy read. I read it in a few hours. Very enjoyable.

3 to 3.5 stars

Sweet story, but the lack of tension between the protagonists didn't keep my attention.

full review soon

"3.5 out of 5 stars! An unconventional family comes together during unusual circumstances but together they make it all work."

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