His Unexpected Family [Kindle Edition]

Robyn Thomas (Author)

Book Description

Sometimes you have to take the leap… again.

Newly widowed with a new baby, Ren Jamieson is putting her life back together after her thrill-seeking husband’s death. But when she’s called to show a high-end property to a prospective client–a commission she desperately needs–she meets a man who makes her pulse pound like nothing she’s ever known…

Cole Matthews is more than he seems. Real estate is only part of the reason he’s in Australia–the other is to see Ren, and make amends somehow for the life lost. The last thing Cole expects is a woman whose humor, sweetness, and sexiness give him a rush greater than any he’s ever experienced...

Torn between her growing feelings for Cole and the risks of loving yet another adventurer, Ren will have to choose between keeping her feet on the ground… and taking the most dangerous leap of her life.

Product Details

• File Size: 317 KB
• Print Length: 123 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Entangled Publishing (Indulgence) (July 21, 2012)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008NXI3H8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,546 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Reviewed for Cocktails and Books August 16, 2012

By Cocktails and Books

Format:Kindle Edition

Cole Matthews, extreme sport filmmaker, thought he lost is all when his brother and best friend died in an avalanche. He vows he's going to become a better person and put all his millions to work helping make up for his mistake by not being with his brother or Danny when they died. His first order of business is to find a place to live while he searches for Danny's widow. Unknowingly, his realtor has an in to get him in contact with her.

Ren agreed to help her old boss show a wealthy hotshot some properties, which in turn will help her pay some of the mountain of debt she's been left with since her husband died in an avalanche. While she wants to be independent and be able to care for her infant daughter, she's starting to drown. But she soon has a benefactor, in the way of her potential real estate client...a man who also happens to have been best friends with her husband. She soon finds the man all too willing to throw money at her to help her out, but also step in and play at being a family with her.

I really wanted to like the characters more, given what each of them had lived through, but I found myself not very sympathetic to either of them, but instead frustrated. Ren not only had to deal with the death of her husband, but also knowing she was pregnant and alone with a mountain of debt. I'd almost start feeling for her when all of a sudden something would come out of her mouth that would turn me off (I felt a little sympathy for my husband with the lashing he's gotten with my sharp tongue after reading some of Ren's comebacks!).

Then there was Cole. He was riddled with guilt over the accident, because if he hadn't been delayed he may have been able to save his brother and his best friend. Get that. But suddenly he thinks throwing money at the situation is going to fix it. And when that doesn't quite cut it, he's going to take Danny's place in the little family he knew nothing about. Cole had good intentions, but he was doing everything for the wrong reasons, which made me mad because I kept thinking (to myself) that Ren has been through enough.

Cole and Ren needed time away from each other to realize that both of them, while not at fault for the accident that took their loved ones, had a hand in what had lead to their unhappiness and needed to decide what to do to change it.

Reviewed for Cocktails and Books. Review copy provided by Publisher.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A sweet romance August 17, 2012

By jbwrites

Format:Kindle Edition

This was a really sweet love story. Often a heroine who is so down on her luck and battered by life as Ren is at the start of this story can seem weak or overpowered by the hero. Not Ren. She knew who she was and what she wanted. I liked how Ren stood her ground with Cole. Her honesty and self knowledge really added angst and drama to the story and made me buy into their HEA.

4.0 out of 5 stars His Unexpected Family March 14, 2013

By PatC

Format:Kindle Edition

I read light romance for fun. This was fun. Life should not be taken so seriously that you can't make time for romance.

More About the Author

Robyn is a cheesecake connoisseur, caffeine addict, and mother of two boys. Happily married, she lives in Melbourne, Australia. She loves movies, art glass and browsing in quirky gift shops.