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Baby Love

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Maggie is running and running scared. With her newborn infant in tow, she jumps on a freight train in order not only to get away but to hide her tracks. Naively, she believes this will be her ticket to a better life. What she doesn't expect is to find the boxcar already inhabited by several drunken transients. When two of them, traveling together, try to attack Maggie, the third comes to her rescue.

Rafe Kendrick is running, too. Running from his memories but can't escape them. After losing his wife and children in an accident for which he blames himself, he left his home, drank himself senseless, and has pretty much kept himself drunk for a couple years. But when he sees Maggie's need, he decides to help.

Maggie is very secretive about her personal life, not willing to divulge her last name, her hometown, or details about how she received the bruises covering much of her body. Rafe is afraid she's running from the law. Knowing she needs to rest and a good meal, he accompanies her to a motel in a little town in Idaho where he pawns his wedding ring to provide Maggie and her infant son with food, clothing, and shelter. When Maggie becomes too ill to care for her baby herself, Rafe knows that he has to stay sober in order to help both of them.

But when Maggie becomes so ill she needs to be taken to the hospital, secrets are revealed putting her life as well as that of her infant son, in danger. Once again Rafe comes to her rescue. Of course Rafe has a few secrets of his own, the most important being that he isn't just your ordinary downtrodden transient.

How these two wounded souls are able to heal one another is an inspiring story from one of romance fiction's most talented authors. Rafe and Maggie are able to give one another the happiness neither one ever expected to find. Catherine Anderson hooks the reader from the very beginning and until its dramatic conclusion she doesn't let go. BABY LOVE is another winner in a long list of keepers from this talented author whose books consistently tug at the heartstrings and pull at the emotions. Don't miss this one.

What a wonderful book with great characters. I have to say this was one of my top 5 favorite books. Rafe is such a tough yet tender guy. One you would dream about. Maggie is tough in her own right coming from an abusive situation. She is running away and meets Rafe, who is also running but for different reasons. He begins to look out for her and take care of her and the baby when she falls sick. From that point on what a beautiful story to get caught up in. I would recommend this to anyone who loves a good romantic story. Some reviewers said that it's to good to be true, but I found it to be so captivating. Besides, fact is stranger than fiction and there is probably someone out there who lived a story similar to this. So READ IT!!! You won't be sorry. Block out time, it's a hard one to put down.

As a single mother this book gave me that hope that sometimes you just need to hang on to. and as in her tradition - she introduced you to Ryan just enough to need to meet him. If you plan on reading this book you MUST get the rest. everyone is just as good as its predecesor. You think they can't get any better - and yet they do. I recommend this one first - then Ryan and Bethany - and then you get sucked into the Coulters.

I really enjoyed reading this book. This was my first Catherine Anderson book and won't be the last. It's a story of how two strangers meet and help one another. It's a little too over the top in some ways, the dirty cowboy bum riding the trains around who happens to be a millioniare! But when I read I want to escape to places and with people who are a little over the top. That's the great part about losing yourself in a good book!! Maggie character was so clear, Anderson describes her and her background that you feel you know her and what she has been through. One of the strongest charcater I have read. Although I haven't been into the whole cowboy/romanace thing, I found this book to be surprisingly good and a fast read!! I would recommend this book highly, but it is a little too good to be true!!

This was the first Catherine Anderson book I've read. I really enjoyed it. Rafe and Maggie are totally believable as two people who have lived through too much in one lifetime. They have such a sweet relationship. I also hope Ms. Anderson will write a story about Ryan. I definitely recommend this book and will look for more Catherine Anderson books to read. This is a keeper!

How I'd like my dark days to turn into sunny days!!!! Wishful thinking! Thank God that I can read about it - gives me some hope or something to dream about at night! I don't care that other readers reject the too-good-to-be-true story but I certainly don't want to read about somebody who cannot find that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because my reality doesn't allow me the chance!!!! Thanks to Ms Anderson who provides a world where I can escape my nightmares! In Baby Love, the heroine struck gold but it's the reality of the life she lived that impacted me. How many women have had to endure that kind of life....and didn't survive? The hero also struck gold. How often do we get so caught up with our pain and grief that we forget others in our lives and the pain that our pain is causing them? Ms Anderson has shown us that every cloud does indeed have a silver lining.

Baby Love was heart warming, intense, romantic and so much more. This story is about a woman who had a hard life. Bruised badly Maggie runs away from her life, with her only care in the world, *her baby*. Maggie finds her gardian angle... drunken, filthy, not having much luck in his own life, and yet very rich, Rafe Kendrick takes Maggied under his wing and teaches Maggie the good side fo life. Baby Love could be the next Cinderella Story... This book tells a story of rags to riches but for Maggie a new look at what love can really be like. I would recommend this book to any dreamer of love. Its a true romance!

This book had my full attention from start to finish! I am a first time reader of Catherine Anderson, but from what I have seen from Baby Love I will defiantly look for more of her books. I felt almost every emotion through this book. This book is about a woman who was robbed of her childhood, self respect and lost all trust on human life. And one day it all turned around and she was given a second chance. It was a true romance love & trust lost and then found agian. Heart warming to the very end! This has been one of the best books I have read in a very long time.

Catherine Anderson is a wonderful author. I don't usually read romance novels, but there is something about her stories that just draws you in. Her characters are unique, and you care about them so much. The men in her stories are just amazing. If there are real men like that in this world, I wish I knew where to find one! I am definitely hooked on Catherine Anderson.

I probably would have enjoyed this book more had I read it rather than listened to the Audio version. For the most part I enjoyed it even with its formulaic romantic structure of tortured girl meets boy, he loves her immediately, he's rich, cute and gives her everything she wants. PRETTY WOMAN all over again

If you listen to the book, the one thing you will notice is that that you can NEVER forget their names, RAFE and MAGGIE. It was tediously said about A ga-zillion times in every sentence they spoke, "OH RAFE," RAFE No, RAFE did you..." or MAGGIE, MAGGIE, MAGGIE" or "MAGGIE girl" Tedious when listening to it.

I love lines from old movies and there was one in THE BIG COUNTRY when Jean Simmons (Not The Kiss Guy) says to Diane Baker, "HOW MANY TIMES DOES HE HAVE TO WIN YOU?.
It's sort of how I felt when Maggie kept whining every single minute about everything. He had to explain his growing affection for her, then his reason for his affection, then why he loved her and THAT he loved her. I realize Maggie was distrusting of men ever since what happened to her at the hands of her stepfather, but there comes a time when a men does everything FOR you and nothing TO you, that you eventually have to give in.

One more thing, her naivete did come across as convincing by silly and repetitive. She couldn't say "breast". She has two of them and is breast feeding. You want to kiss? My thigh?
A lot of little things like that. Had this been a historical I would have fallen for it, but not a contemporary novel of this magnitude.
His entire family loves her on the spot, even though every single Television series about rich people, Falcon crest, Dallas, etc is always suspicious of a young women who is NOT rich coming to the family no matter how innocent she is. Not this family, it was instant love. OH PLEASE!

It was well paced and I liked the story line, but the characters go on my nerves just a bit.