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Claremont, Alabama #10
Daddy Wanted
Former wild child Savannah Bowers goes from being happily single to the guardian of three children after the sudden death of her best friend. Struggling with her new role, Savvy's not sure if Brodie Evans's offer to help is a welcome one. She has trouble forgiving her childhood friend's past mistakes, but she'll give him a chance for the sake of the kids. Which is why the attraction she begins to feel for him catches her off guard. And she can tell she's not the only one. If Brodie can prove he's changed his ways, he might just be this instant family's perfect daddy.
288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 20, 2015
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About the author
Renee Andrews
43 books149 followersNational Readers' Choice Award and RT Reviewers' Choice Award winner Renee Andrews spends a lot of time in the gym. No, she isn't working out. Her husband, a former All-American gymnast, co-owns ACE Cheer and Tumbling. She is thankful the talented kids at the gym don't have a problem when she brings her laptop and writes while they sweat. When she isn't writing, she's typically traveling with her husband, bragging about their two sons and new daughters-in-law or spoiling their grandchildren.
Renee is a kidney donor and actively supports organ donation. In 2013, she, her husband and their oldest son competed as team Hello Kidney on the American Bible Challenge to raise money for living donors and to raise awareness for the need for living donors.
If you are considering becoming a living donor, ask her about how you can also save a life by sharing your spare! Or check out the “living donor” section of her Web site, http://www.ReneeAndrews.com She welcomes prayer requests and loves to hear from readers! Write to her at Renee@ReneeAndrews.com
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Books by Renee Andrews
Her Valentine Family – February 2011
Healing Autumn’s Heart – October 2011
Cake Icing, Butt Budder and Tea Lids - October 2011
Picture Perfect Family – March 2012
Love Reunited – October 2012
Mornings with Jesus 2013 – September 2012
Heart of a Rancher – January 2013
Profiled – February 2013
Bride Wanted – July 2013
Yuletide Twins – November 2013
Mornings with Jesus 2014 – December 2013
Mommy Wanted – January 2014
Small Town Billionaire - September 2014
Mondays with Jesus 2015 - October 2014
Daddy Wanted - February 2015
Baby Wanted - August 2015
Family Wanted - September 2015
Mondays with Jesus 2016 - October 2015
Mondays with Jesus 2017 - October 2016
Second Chance Father - December 2016
Child Wanted - July 2017
Renee is a kidney donor and actively supports organ donation. In 2013, she, her husband and their oldest son competed as team Hello Kidney on the American Bible Challenge to raise money for living donors and to raise awareness for the need for living donors.
If you are considering becoming a living donor, ask her about how you can also save a life by sharing your spare! Or check out the “living donor” section of her Web site, http://www.ReneeAndrews.com She welcomes prayer requests and loves to hear from readers! Write to her at Renee@ReneeAndrews.com
Renee Andrews on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AuthorReneeAn...
Renee Andrews on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/reneeandrews
Books by Renee Andrews
Her Valentine Family – February 2011
Healing Autumn’s Heart – October 2011
Cake Icing, Butt Budder and Tea Lids - October 2011
Picture Perfect Family – March 2012
Love Reunited – October 2012
Mornings with Jesus 2013 – September 2012
Heart of a Rancher – January 2013
Profiled – February 2013
Bride Wanted – July 2013
Yuletide Twins – November 2013
Mornings with Jesus 2014 – December 2013
Mommy Wanted – January 2014
Small Town Billionaire - September 2014
Mondays with Jesus 2015 - October 2014
Daddy Wanted - February 2015
Baby Wanted - August 2015
Family Wanted - September 2015
Mondays with Jesus 2016 - October 2015
Mondays with Jesus 2017 - October 2016
Second Chance Father - December 2016
Child Wanted - July 2017
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May 2, 2022
This one was ok. I did not like Brodie at all, to intense and controlling. The series as a whole was good.
February 16, 2015
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Rated 3.5 but rounded up for Goodreads.
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Rated 3.5 but rounded up for Goodreads.
October 5, 2023
This book was so much better than I anticipated. Truly.. I knew it would be enjoyable, but for some reason the summary didn't give me the feeling that it would be more than that. But it was. In many ways this book is an illustration of all God promises in Isa 61:1-4. The brokenhearted are bound up, the captives set free, those mourning are comforted, ashes are replaced by beauty, joy and praise replace mourning and despair and the ancient ruins are restored.
December 27, 2022
Savannah Bowers, one of the three "wild children" of Claremont has come back to town - as the guardian of her best friend's three children. Brodie Evans, the third "wild child" has also returned to Claremont. Can the two of them set things right with their friend's children, the town, and each other?
June 10, 2017
Two of the three wild children of the town have returned to take care of the third's three children. Unknown that the father of the son is right there! Can they accept forgiveness and forgive?
June 19, 2017
Christian romance.
July 15, 2017
Brody and Savvy have a past with each other and many others. Seemed that if it could be messed up they had done it. Good ending.
December 29, 2021
It's a nice Christian book. Easy read.
March 6, 2023
This was a great book. I loved the way that Savvy and Brodie stepped up to help a dear friend’s kids after her death. This was also a great story of forgiveness. I really enjoyed reading this book.
May 23, 2015
Claremont, AL
Book 10
Renee Andrews did it again! Her writing and the passion she puts in these books just get me every time! I can just feel the emotions the characters go through. The topics she writes about all not all sugar-coated and sweet.In the end, there are hard lessons, imperfect people who make mistakes, and past mistakes that can never be undone. This stuff is so realistic - I just cannot help loving it!
Both Brodie and Savannah have shady pasts. They weren't good kids growing up, and even fairly recently they haven't been able to live up to the "good person" award. Brodie has a fifteen year old daughter that he gave up when she was two because. A dead-beat dad is the hero of our story? Only Renee Andrews could pull something like that off and make it a true heroic romance!
The story is very (and I do mean very) predictable. I saw the revealing of a truth coming way before it even hinted. I was actually thinking that it was so obvious that maybe it wasn't there...
The romance, like most of her other books, was allowed to grow throughout the book. They didn't save the "I want you" until the very last sentence of the book. The conflict near the end (especially Savannah's side of it) seemed like a lot of ado about nothing in my opinion. I was a bit shocked at her extreme reaction, but it made for good drama later, I suppose...
The series isn't over yet! The next Claremont book starts a new series - based on this book! So excited!
Book 10
Renee Andrews did it again! Her writing and the passion she puts in these books just get me every time! I can just feel the emotions the characters go through. The topics she writes about all not all sugar-coated and sweet.In the end, there are hard lessons, imperfect people who make mistakes, and past mistakes that can never be undone. This stuff is so realistic - I just cannot help loving it!
Both Brodie and Savannah have shady pasts. They weren't good kids growing up, and even fairly recently they haven't been able to live up to the "good person" award. Brodie has a fifteen year old daughter that he gave up when she was two because. A dead-beat dad is the hero of our story? Only Renee Andrews could pull something like that off and make it a true heroic romance!
The story is very (and I do mean very) predictable. I saw the revealing of a truth coming way before it even hinted. I was actually thinking that it was so obvious that maybe it wasn't there...
The romance, like most of her other books, was allowed to grow throughout the book. They didn't save the "I want you" until the very last sentence of the book. The conflict near the end (especially Savannah's side of it) seemed like a lot of ado about nothing in my opinion. I was a bit shocked at her extreme reaction, but it made for good drama later, I suppose...
The series isn't over yet! The next Claremont book starts a new series - based on this book! So excited!
March 7, 2015
Wow! What a story! The saying is, "You can't go home again." For Savvy Bowers that has been true for 10 years. Then her best friend from high school dies in a climbing accident and names her guardian of 3 children - a 13 year-old boy and 6 year-old twin girls. Love for her friend Willow and the three children, Dylan, Rose and Daisy, is the only thing that could convince Savvy to return to the town that censured her all those years ago. Days after she arrives home, the third member of her "wild child" trio shows up on her doorstep. Brodie Evans left town on a baseball scholarship and never looked back. Now he's coaching baseball at the nearby college and showing up at Savvy's door with a letter from Willow asking for his help with her son, Dylan. Brodie wants to make amends to his former best friends but since Willow is dead, he concentrates on showing Savvy that he is a changed man.
This is a story of forgiveness. Savvy's misspent youth puts her squarely in a town full of people who remember too much. Brodie let fame go to his head and failed to live a life of integrity, walking away from his faith in the process. Can they forgive each other and find God waiting for them?
Excellent story! Couldn't put it down.
This is a story of forgiveness. Savvy's misspent youth puts her squarely in a town full of people who remember too much. Brodie let fame go to his head and failed to live a life of integrity, walking away from his faith in the process. Can they forgive each other and find God waiting for them?
Excellent story! Couldn't put it down.
January 15, 2015
Everyone has a past and things that they need to apologize and/or forgive for, and this is a pretty constant theme in this story.
I wanted to really enjoy this book but I just couldn't get into the characters - they all seemed very one-dimensional to me. I liked the basic plot of someone returning home to raise their friend's kids and meeting up with an old flame, and I can handle a bit of stubbornness and frustration between the two main characters, but I was just frustrated by the fact that Savvy took FOREVER to forgive Brodie over something that wasn't even done to her in the first place. I felt like character backstories were rushed and the message of forgiveness and love for others was very heavy handed throughout the book.
Overall, this was a good book, but not a great one.
I received this book as a Goodreads first reads book in return for a review. All opinions are my own.
I wanted to really enjoy this book but I just couldn't get into the characters - they all seemed very one-dimensional to me. I liked the basic plot of someone returning home to raise their friend's kids and meeting up with an old flame, and I can handle a bit of stubbornness and frustration between the two main characters, but I was just frustrated by the fact that Savvy took FOREVER to forgive Brodie over something that wasn't even done to her in the first place. I felt like character backstories were rushed and the message of forgiveness and love for others was very heavy handed throughout the book.
Overall, this was a good book, but not a great one.
I received this book as a Goodreads first reads book in return for a review. All opinions are my own.
February 16, 2015
Daddy Wanted by Renee Andrews was a very good book. Savannah Bowers moved back to her hometown when her best friend died in an accident. She left her three children to Savannah to raise. Some people in town have bad feelings toward Savannah. Growing up Savannah got into a lot of trouble. She won't move away cause this town is the kids home. Also moving back home recently is Brodie Evans. He is a baseball coach now. Savannah and Brodie have a past history. Brodie helps the older boy with school classes and baseball. Come to find out the boy is really Brodie's. Brodie didn't know. A lot of things go on in this book. A must read.
April 17, 2016
DADDY WANTED
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This book borders on "I liked it" (three stars).
Speaking positively, not everything is perfect in sunny Somewhere (Claremont), Alabama, and the story benefits from healthy doses of reality. Life happens, often messily, and all that.
However, there are a few detractors, the largest of which is a scene that involves something similar to this meme:
Humans do not land on their feet or in other convenient locations, for that matter. In my opinion, this was an unnecessary and over-the-top scene.
Yet, this was an overall enjoyable story for the genre.
March 14, 2016
I would have given this book a higher rating if it weren't for the awful continuity problem. I knew where the story was headed but kept telling myself that it couldn't go that way because the "math" was wrong. It went that way anyhow. I don't blame the author per se, I blame the editor and/or proofreader for not catching or preventing such a glaring error.
January 15, 2015
Loved this book... I enjoyed reading it and excited about reading the next one from Renee Andrews. I like reading books that feed off the previous book. The Clairmont families are like family to me. Would recommend this book to any of my friends!
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January 12, 2016"There are a number of beautiful and heartwarming scenes in this story that will tug at the reader’s heartstrings. The “what happened in the past” aspect will keep readers guessing, while the faith message is nicely woven throughout" (RT Book Reviews, 4 stars).
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January 12, 2016received 4 stars @ RT Book Reviews
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February 19, 2015The story was a solid okay. The characters were flat. Too predictable. Did not enjoy reading this book.
July 31, 2016
It is a great book to read
August 30, 2016
This was another LI book I could not put down:) Very good story and a page-turner:)
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