The Family Way

by Jayne Ann Krentz

Book Overview

Pru leaves her live-in lover when he refuses to marry her, but her unexpected pregnancy brings happiness, and inadvertently heals a major family rift.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551665557
• ISBN13: 9781551665559
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

a fun read!

This one will be reprinted in April 2003, so I dug it out and see if it was worth a reprint. And yes, not likely at the price they will offer, so suggest used if you can.The story is a simple one, but as usual it is JAK's character and her incisive writing that makes the book. Case McCord wanted Pru Kenyon in his life but not that the cost of marriage.Carrying baggage from a previous relationship that ended in death of his fiancé and estrangement from his family, it is cutting off from any such ties that blind - and hurt. Only Problem with that, is Pru - in spite of living with him for three months - is basically an old fashioned girl at heart and thought eventually their relationship would lead to marriage.She is in a quandary when she discovers she is pregnant. She wants McCord to marriage, but because he loves her, not because he has to...so after giving him marriage or I am leaving and he refuses, she leaves, never expecting to see him again.He naturally comes after Pru, convinces her he has changed his mind and wants her. Everything is fine until the morning after he wedding when she discovered the bill from the doctor in his pocket. He had none she was pregnant. Pru must face staying and fighting for the love from the man she loves.The characters and real and warm, and lots of humorous touches that leaves you smiling.

Family problems.

Unable to convince Case McCord to marry her, Prudence Kenyon leaves, keeping her pregnancy a secret. When Case realizes Pru is carrying his baby, he must work to woo her back and convince her he wants to marry her. After the marriage, Pru works on reuniting Case with his family and clearing up the mystery surrounding the death of Case's fiance.I've always liked when the heroine defends the hero without knowing the whole story. This is one of those books. Pru is wonderful and Case is truly appreciative. While his family should've known Case better than to believe the story told, it was a deathbed statement, taken far too seriously in most cultures. I, for one, believe that marriage should be for each adult involved, not for the sake of the child. The child suffers when the parents are together only for them, believe me.

A poignant tale

Six months pregnant, widow Wendy Sloan informs her son, twelve-year-old Ben, that she plans to sell the family's failing Nevada Moon Lake Resort. The place needs repairs that her beloved spouse used to perform before he died five months ago and there is no income to hire anyone. She also tells Ben that they, along with his younger sister will move to Sacramento to be closer to her family. A desperate Ben, who does not want to move, uses a class project to send an advertisement for a handyman over the Internet. Ben receives an "A" in school, many hits, but no takers.Special FBI Agent Josh Walker recovers from a gunshot wound to his leg in which his partner died. His boss sends him to the Sloan's Tahoe resort to recuperate as a handyman as advertised over the Net. Josh obtains the job and finds he is falling in love with the 3.67 Sloans. Wendy and her children return Josh's feelings. However, Josh is marked by a drug cartel for death and knows his life with Wendy and her two kids is built on a lie.Award winning author Rebecca Winters brightens up romance readers with her touching tales. Her latest story, THE FAMILY WAY, will delight fans with its passionate look at four individuals struggling with life after death. The heroic Josh will do anything to make life easier for his beloved. His love for her children including the unborn shows how caring a person he is. Wendy provides poignancy rarely seen in novels as she raises her two precocious children in the aftermath of her husband's death and her pregnancy. Ms. Winters remains an author for all seasons.Harriet Klausner

Good Sunday Afternoon read

I have read almost all of JAK's books and I enjoyed re-reading this one. The story line was good, plot was good, characters were good, and the ending was good. If you read an authors books over a long period, then re-read an earlier novel, you appreciate how far the author has come. Bravo to JAK for her talent, people are easy to criticize what they can not accomplish themselves.

The family way is a nice easy read!

After reading some of the reviews, I have to say I'm disappointed that I haven't read any of Amanda Quick's books,but I shall look them up. Reading Jayne Ann Krentz books have been a joy to me. I was not impressed with book, but it was a nice easy read, I like the fact that it was an already established couple as well albeit it was three months. I've only begun to read her books just last year so I have to say any book titled under her name I will read, I like the fact that she details the strong masculine types as her heroes.