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5.0 out of 5 stars
Keeps You Guessing, July 2, 2004
Megan (Meggy) May Kane has always lived with her father on the farm that they have lived on all her life. While she was growing up she had a secret love for her neighbor and local bad boy Nate Bravo who's grandfather ran the neighboring farm, but who now runs an investigative office out of his apartment in Los Angles. They have not seen each other for nearly 20 years, but that is about to change. When Meggy's father dies she finds out that he has a surprise for her in his will. His will says that Megan must marry and have a child within a year or the farm would have to be sold. Megan does not like this, because the farm is the only place she has ever lived and she would have to evict her cousin Sonny and his family out of the bunkhouse they were staying in while they helped her around the farm. Meggy decides the answer to her problems is to go to L.A. and propose to Nate. At first he says no, but after some give and take they are married. They spend the summer working on her farm and working in her bedroom trying to make the baby that Meggy wants. Then winter comes to the farm and Nate heads back to L.A. telling Meggy to come out in a couple of days. Meggy decides to do this because she needs to tell him that they have reached their goal, that they are going to have a baby. Several days later she arrives in L.A. to find Nate away on an assignment. After he comes back Meggy wants to tell him her news, but holds off. They spend the the next month in L.A. before Nate figures out that Meggy is pregnant, and sends her back to her farm. He is mad because they made a deal that when she became pregnant she would tell him, not hide it. After a couple of days Nate wakes up to the fact that he loves Meggy and their unborn child and wants to be with them so he takes a flight to the town they live in and comes across her just in time, because his baby is about to be born. All in all a great story and one of a very interesting series
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Story, July 20, 2011
Probably the best of Rimmer's early Bravo books.
There are a lot of elements here that will be familiar to readers of Category Romances:
Plot - a temporary wedding to satisfy requirements of a will
Hero - tortured, emotionally unavailable, determined to remain unattached
Heroine - a long, unrequited love for the hero
It won't matter. This story still comes across as fresh and unexpected.
I liked the hero well enough, although I found his profession more interesting than his person. (He's a PI, but unlike in most romances, the author does NOT glamorize the work). I LOVED the heroine. She's no martyr, and despite her "doomed" love for the hero, she enjoys people and life in general. Also, the story development was a constant surprise. Certain steps are expected with this plotline, but when you hit what would have been the climax in another's hands, you are only half way through the story with Rimmer.
Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Marriage by Necessity by Christine Rimmer (Large Print Silhouette Special Edition Hardcover), November 15, 2006
This review is from: Marriage by Necessity (Hardcover)
Well, I agree with both of the previous reviews about this being a heck of a book - I give it five stars and highly recommend. But both reviews have some of the details about the book wrong ... Meggie and Nate had formed a friendship at age fourteen, shortly after Nate moved in with his grandfather on a neighboring ranch. Close friends for two years, Meggie fell in love with Nate, but Nate made it clear he cherished his freedom more than anything, and a distance formed between them. Still in love with him at nineteen, Meggie finally worked up enough nerve to tell Nate her feelings, but he rejected her and let her know there was no chance of a future for them. Soon afterwards he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a private investigator. More than ten years pass, and Meggie is in her early thirties and still has never married. Her father dies, and as part of his will he makes it a requirement that Meggie marry and have a child in two years, or the ranch will be sold and she'll have to start over somewhere else. She won't be penniless, but she'll lose the ranch she has loved all her life. Meggie decides she has nothing to lose by trying one last time with Nate, so she asks him to marry her and give her a baby, after which she'll set him free again ... This is the second book in the Bravo Family Ties series which consists of The Nine-Month Marriage (Cash & Abby); Marriage by Necessity (Nate & Meggie) and Practically Married (Zach & Tess). All three books are excellent and can be read independently, but your enjoyment will be enhanced if you read them in order.
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A ring and a baby - and then she'd set him free ... To fulfil her father's will and keep her precious ranch, Megan Kane needed to marry and bear a child. Since she'd always loved handsome neighbour Nate Bravo - a rogue she couldn't tie down - her solution was simple. She'd beg Nate to wed her and bed her ... Meggie vowed she wouldn't cling. Wouldn't linger. She'd cherish her marriage until she got pregnant. Then she'd raise Nate's baby lovingly ... and alone. But all too soon Meggie swelled with child. And she learned some promises were hell to keep ...
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