A Mom for Callie

by Laura Bradford

Betsy Anderson isn't the sort of woman to leave home and travel 1,200 miles because of a feeling . But something about the photo of a certain bridge in Cedar Creek has stirred up buried emotions. And... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373753195
• ISBN13: 9780373753192
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Harlequin American Romance
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

wonderful contemporary romance

Widow author Betsy Anderson has not moved on since her husband Mark died eighteen months ago. Literally moved by a picture of Paxton Bridge in a bookstore calendar, she leaves Manhattan to see the real thing twelve hundred miles away. She knows her spontaneous act is certifiable as there are nicer views from New York City's pedestrian bridges than this one in Cedar Creek, Illinois, but she felt compelled to go see this stone bridge, as if this simple inane act symbolized moving on. At the bridge, Betsy meets Police Officer Kyle Brennan, a single father uninterested in any romantic relationships since his Callie's mother Lila deserted her. At a bookstore in town, Betsy meets fan Angela Murphy whose husband Tom is Kyle's partner. They discuss true love, which leads to Betsy staying in town to write her next book. As the author and the cop begin to see one another, her guilt over defiling her late spouse's memory and his remorse over doing the wrong thing for his child Callie by dating threatens to end their relationship. This is a wonderful contemporary romance starring a grieving widow who knows she loved Mark, but was not in true love with him and the cop who makes her tingle and sweat. The keys to the story line are Callie is not precocious or rabid and Laura Bradford's ability to tell a Heartland romance without denigrating big cities or turning small towns into Eden. At times false impressions seem overly done, although one could argue the lead couple's emotional baggage is the cause. Still the overarching theme that home is where the heart feels the contentment of being loved and loving back makes for a delightfully contented read.. Harriet Klausner

Romantic Suspense

A Mom for Callie was just what the doctor ordered for enjoyable light reading with good characters, good premise, good dialog and the only complaint...not a series. I would love to meet Betsy, Kyle, and Callie in a continuing series. The added surprise was how Kyle's job got mixed up in Betsy's world. I felt this book had all the elements of a mystery but due to it being a romance was turned at the pass. Ms. Bradford can write, that is clear. Now off to read what other books she has written!

A bridge makes a connection

Loving a police officer must be hard. Taking a second chance of loving those who serve and protect after losing someone would be impossible. A Mom For Callie explores two lives as they try at love one more time. Betsy Anderson takes a chance on a road trip to see a bridge. A bridge that had called to her from the first time she saw it in the calendar section of her New York bookstore. Now, after finding the bridge, she's ready to start a new chapter in her life, literally, as she's an author on a very past due deadline. Kyle Brennan is first and foremost, a single father. Add in his job as a local police officer, and he doesn't have the time or energy for his new next-door neighbor. Even if meeting her has every nerve in his body awake, he can't afford to take another chance, not and risk Callie's heart. Readers will love the back and forth romance while Betsy and Kyle wrestle with demons from their past and try to form the type of family that they all crave, including Callie.