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Promise Me A Rainbow Kindle Edition

by Cheryl Reavis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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" . . . a delicately crafted, eminently satisfying romantic fiction. Reavis works magic . . . " - Publishers Weekly

Two lonely people, scarred by betrayal and tragedy, believe that love is lost to them forever…
Deserted by her husband because she couldn't have children, Catherine Holben has thrown herself into her job counseling pregnant teens. Catherine is still recovering from the pain of her divorce, but her life is changed forever when she makes a purchase in a quaint curio shop. She meets handsome, hardworking Joe D'Amaro, a widower and father of three, and his daughter, Fritz. But Joe needs help with Fritz, a seven-year-old dynamo. She's a precocious but headstrong little girl who's impossible to resist., and he is too proud to admit it.
Joe and Catherine are cautious about making a commitment to each other. They both know the joy and heartache of falling in love, but are they willing to risk being together despite their misgivings? Neither can ignore the love that quickly blossoms between them. Maybe they can have a wonderful life together . . . if only Joe's still-grieving older daughter, Della, will accept a new woman in her father's life.
True love versus reality. Can Catherine handle his ready-made family? Or is there more in store for her than she thinks?
A four-time RITA winner and a three-time RITA finalist, Cheryl Reavis is the author of acclaimed romance novels including A Crime of the Heart, which was condensed in Good Housekeeping magazine. Visit her on Facebook, read her blog, Writing Life, www.cherylreavis.blogspot.com, and follow her on Twitter @sCRibblercheryl.

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276 pages
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Bell Bridge Books
Publication date

May 21, 2012
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" . . . a delicately crafted, eminently satisfying romantic fiction. Reavis works magic . . . " - Publishers Weekly

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ASIN : B007Y8QADC
Publisher : Bell Bridge Books (May 21, 2012)
Publication date : May 21, 2012
Language : English
File size : 911 KB
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Print length : 276 pages
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- #7,503 in Clean & Wholesome Romance (Kindle Store)
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JJares

Tender, Tough and Touching

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018

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This contemporary story is about Catherine and Jonathan, who have divorced (sometime earlier) because they cannot have children and Jonathan wants them desperately. Jonathan tells Catherine that he is getting married again and leaves her apartment. On the stairs are Joe and Fritz, who overhear much of the conversation. They leave without talking to Catherine.

Earlier that afternoon, Catherine bought a gnome sculpture at a resale store and the owner of the shop asked for her home number and name. She felt that the family would want to buy the gnome sculpture back when they had the money. Joe's family hated selling it but were financially strapped.

Fritz sneaks away from home and goes back to see the gnomes and Catherine is so nice that Fritz fantasizes about Catherine being her mother.

To earn money, Catherine has become a school teacher for pregnant girls, to keep them in high school. Catherine was a nurse and is prepared to teach the girls about prenatal nutrition, emotional health and getting ready to care for a baby full-time.

This is a complex plotline with lots going on through the story. Having worked with pregnant females, I found the story to be accurate and just as sad as it is in real life.

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mary s

Emotional read about people finding happiness unexpectedly

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2017

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A really good story about people finding happiness unexpectedly. As usual with Cheryl Reavis we have a finely woven plot linking characters in the most unusual and heartwarming ways. This is a romantic story but also a story about a family or forming new families.
The characters are wonderfully layered and complex: Joe and Catherine, both with emotional scars and a lot of baggage, Joe’s children, and the other secondary characters.
The dialogue is vivid – although sometimes Fritz’s utterances seem much older than her years – and the action had enough twists to keep me interested until the end.
I found it cute that the frequent telephone calls between characters reveal a not so recent historical period, but the story is still a powerfully emotional read.
Some aspects were not solved as well as I would like – with Joe’s recalcitrant daughter, Della, or with his evil sister-in-law – but those were minor details.
4 solid stars!

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TinaW

A pair of lonely people find each other

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2012

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This wasn't a bad book by any means but it felt very heavy. For a romance it seemed curiously lacking in real joy until the very end.

The tone of the book is set somewhat by Catherine. She lives a half-life, sad about her inability to have children and abandoned by her husband because of it.

And then there is Joe and his youngest daughter Fitz. Joe's wife was killed in a car accident and his youngest daughter, seven-year-old Fitz is having emotional issues because of it.

Joe, Fitz and Catherine's lives intersect over a mother/child figurine that Catherine purchases on impulse. The figurine was actually owned by Joe but he sold it because he was short on cash. But Fitz was very attached to the figurine and wants it back.

I get the feeling that I was supposed to be happy that this lonely woman and this damaged man and child found each other. But I just found them to be somewhat enervating. They didn't lift me at all, on the contrary I found them somewhat wearing. Joe and Catherine, after a few head-butting moments, figure out that they really like each other and then they become lovers. The problem with the story is that there was no real conflict for them.

So we are left with filler and secondary characters that shift focus from the decidedly subdued romance. First there is Catherine's job. She works as a counselor? Den Mother? Life Coach? To a group of pre-teen pregnant girls who are given a sort of area-51 zone in their school where only Catherine and one other teacher work with them. These girls are young, yet hardened by life and their circumstances. Oh, btw, the other teacher has Cancer and her husband left her because of it (see....heavy).

Second is Joe's family. He has a predatory sister-in-law. A Clueless brother. And his oldest teenaged daughter, Delia, who acts as the primary obstacle in keeping Joe and Catherine apart. Normally I would find Delia's actions compelling, because children objecting to a new boyfriend/girlfriend can act as a definite obstacle. But the inclusion of the Brother & sister-in-law took the plot-line from potentially interesting to downright ludicrous.

But Joe and Catherine (and Fitz) get their HEA in the end. But even so, all I could think about was that this book went beyond angsty and straight into depressing

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Lady ReadsaLot

Great, quick read

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2012

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This was a great story that was well told with well developed characters. I enjoyed the fact that it really seemed to hit all the levels---there were moments that made me smile and moments that had me tearing up. The ending was not unexpected, but the route the author took to get there was not as predictable as one sometimes comes to expect from these chick lit/romance books.

Catherine was a heroine who I really found myself rooting for---I really wanted her to be happy. Joe was the kind of guy that every single woman hopes will smile at her in that special way. Sure they both had baggage and it did seem like they went from mutual disdain to so much more pretty quickly, but the alternating PoV and back story told throughout made it seem more natural. The kids, from Catherine's pregnant girls to Joe's brood were drawn in a realistic way. Fritz had so much depth and heart that I just wanted to hug that little girl myself. And Grandmama and Dr. Clarkson were both great with lots of clear personality.

There were a few editing misses that caught me off guard as overall it was well written. A "my" instead of "by' and a few missing commas were not enough to detract from the story itself. I look forward to reading more from this author.

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JIA Hale

Good for ah! moments

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2019

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Loved this novel heartwarming and easy to read. The only thing is as per her stories everything goes according to plan no surprises but I still enjoy her novels

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