Tessa's Child [Paperback]

Dallas Schulze (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

Pregnant and on the run from her unhappy past, Tessa Wyndham finds refuge in the arms of loner Keefe Walker, a rancher who finds himself an unexpected part of a family.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Silhouette (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373483392
• ISBN-13: 978-0373483396
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 3.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book about hope...., April 18, 2003

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iheartjackbauer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tessa's Child (Paperback)

Tessa Wyndham is finally free from her hellish marriage of four years. The only problem that Tessa has is that she's pregnant with the baby of a man that she despised and feared. She doesn't know what she wants to do about the baby, but when her husband's parents tell her that they will fight her for custody of the baby, she knows that she would not give an innocent baby to the people who raised such a monster. So she flees in the middle of the night and finds a safe haven with Keefe Walker, who oddly enough is her sister's ex-husband. In the brief time that Keefe and her sister, Dana, were married, the two formed a friendship that Tessa had always treasured.

Keefe Walker had been raised to believe that family was everything. Even though he is divorced, he can't turn Tessa away. Especially when he sees the look of fear in her eyes. The last time he saw her, she was only eighteen. Since then, she has turned into a woman that Keefe knows he will do anything to protect. When her in-laws come to the ranch and threaten to take away Tessa's baby, Keefe does something that feels so natural, he is shocked. He claims the baby as his own and asks Tessa to marry him.

Tessa's Child is about a spousal abuse victim who finally finds a place to make her feel safe. On Keefe's ranch, she finally is able to sort out her feelings for the baby she resented the whole time she was pregnant. When she realizes how much she loves the baby and Keefe, she proposes to Keefe that they make their marriage a real one. Then her sister shows up and everything Tessa wants is put in jepordy. All she has to do is put all her faith in Keefe, and know that he would never let her down.

Great book!

4.0 out of 5 stars romancelover, July 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Tessa's Child (Paperback)

This book is very good. Dallas Schulze does a great job with the characters. I really felt sorry for Tessa and wish she had had a better marraige. But, if she had, she wouldn't have married Keefe. I hated her EX-in-laws and Dana. I usually only go for the books with action in them, like with a cop as a main person. I really enjoyed this one and I have not read the rest in this series. I can't wait to read the others in her Walker family saga.

4.0 out of 5 stars Tessa is a different kind of heroine, July 8, 2000

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Summer Belle "Word Affectionado" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tessa's Child (Paperback)

First off, Tessa is NOT DIVORCED, she's widowed. Widowed from a wife beating jerk.

The book starts off with Tessa having very mixed feelings about her baby. She didn't love the father and wonders how she'll love his baby. Her powerful in laws want the baby, but she refuses th give an innocent up to the two people who helped mold the wife beating jerk she was married to. So she goes on the lam and hides out at her ex brother in law's ranch (he was married to her sister).

To protect her from her dead husband's family, Keefe Walker decides on a marriage of convienence. And since this is a romance, we all sort of know what happens next.

This was a good book. Tessa was a "weak" heroine. Not an "I can do anything" person. Just someone who wants a family to take care of.

Keefe is a strong man, a man who will do what is right, no matter what the cost. He'll protect Tessa and her innocent baby with his name, the backing of his family, whatever it takes.

I liked the book, but then I like most of Ms. Schulze's books. She writes with a lot of self depreciating humor about the love between souls meant to be joined.