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Sarah And The Sheriff (Silhouette Special Edition)

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Max is 12 years older than Sarah. He knew her as a toddler before he left town. He runs into her in California and they have a brief two week fling. In his favor, he tells her it will not lead anywhere. So he chased her as much as she chased him. However she is a 21 year old virgin and he knows that she will want a bit more than what he is willing to give despite what she says to the contrary. Max makes love to her one last time and then disappears to get married. She had to track him down from a talkative co-worker who told her had had a fiancée and son!

He left her pregnant when he went off to marry Jennifer and provide for her and her son just because he felt it was his fault that his partner was killed in the line of duty. Apparently there were no benefits for her and she needed insurance for her and the baby. The foolish woman had a spat with the partner and didn't put his name on the birth certificate when the child was born. Then of course she never did before he died either.

Max claims that he loves Sarah that he lies in bed at night wanting her. However, once Jennifer had died from cancer the previous year Max never went in search of her. He is only now seeing her because he moved back to his home town to take care of his mother and look for some drug traffickers. Sure he thinks of her being married or something since their time together but he never really verifies that.
He tells Sarah that he didn't regret marrying Jennifer and later loving her too. We get a little of his thoughts but not very much of his emotions. Those might have helped here though. As they are having one of their conversations he says, "I wasn't the reason you didn't have the man you loved, I wasn't the reason your baby had not father." Um . . . yeah Max you were! Although he didn't know it at the time but he didn't exactly go looking for her and yeah she didn't contact him and tell him that she was pregnant but when should she have done that? At his wedding to another woman, which Sarah knew nothing about; or perhaps when he first showed up in town? She felt that he chose the other woman over her. She didn't know why he married Jennifer at the time. It looked like he was playing around on Jennifer with Sarah.

Of course they finally sleep together and he says he hasn't done this in a long time and she says she hadn't done it since him. Later when he finds out about the baby he states it was mine. Great work detective! You knew you were her first, she told you there hadn't been anyone else since you when you two made love again and you have the gall to make that obvious statement. Of course the morning after, he has to ask her to clarify whether or not there were any other men since him. So she has said it twice now! Apparently Jennifer had told him to get in touch with Sarah but he didn't, he said he couldn't do it, that walking away from her once was about all he could do.

When she spills the beans it is in anger because he is telling her that a little girl should be placed with someone who is already raising children and she states she would be raising hers if she hadn't lost him. Does Max act shocked or upset? And now of course brilliant detective/DEA agent who seems to enjoy taking care of other people wants to run away. I guess he can't take care of Sarah the girl he claims to love but he can take care of his partner's fiancée and child. It's too hard to deal with the woman you love and the loss she suffered because you couldn't think to use protection for her but it is so easy to break her heart to marry your partner's fiancée and raise his child as yours! What the heck was he thinking there? I know it is commendable that he wanted to help her and all because he felt responsible but really there were other things that could have been done. Yeah, yeah, yeah . . . plot device. Off topic here: he was married to Jennifer for 6 years and they were having "relations", why didn't she ever have another child? She didn't get sick for awhile and then she died.

Max says some things can't be made right. Ma says you face it, apologize, and move forward. Funny how he thought he could make things right for Jennifer but not for Sarah. Of course we have to read how he loved Jennifer too. Okay I get that, but he was willing to sit aside what he wanted to make things right for her but his first instinct is to run from Sarah, whom he claims to love, instead of attempting to make things right for her first. Nice guy.

Max says that he would have cut off his arm to keep from hurting Sarah the way he did, but he still did it. He is sorry for everything. For what Sarah lost, for not knowing until now, not being there for her; but, he is not sorry for marrying Jennifer. Sarah is scared now, she doesn't want to give him her heart again, but there are less than 20 pages left! He asks her to marry him. He says that he loves her. She says no. He leaves. They come back together and are held hostage by the bad guy he was tracking down. Which by the way, if he had been doing in job and investigating everyone instead of Sarah and this strange man she was talking to he would have figured out before. She had some epiphany which we weren't really clued into and now she is willing to take the risk with Max. OH YEAH WHY SARAH AND THE SHERIFF? HE DOESN'T BECOME A SHERIFF UNTIL THE EPILOGUE.

- Another enjoyable read from Allison Leigh. Even with the limited word count of a category romance, Leigh digs deep into the motivations of each character without getting bogged down in backstory. In so many series titles the author spends too much time catching up with the myriad of characters from prior books that the current plot line suffers. Leigh manages to weave backstory into the current plot to deliver a satisfying read.

With every release, the Men of the Double C series just keeps getting better and better. ~ Ana at ireadromancedotcom

Another next generation book in the Double C Ranch book series about the Clay clan. It was well written and enjoyable.