The Marriage Agreement (Bravo Family, #7)

Bravo Family #7

by Christine Rimmer

"YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT--THE REDHEAD'S SURPRISE." His dying father's wickedly whispered words sent memories spinning in Marsh Bravo's mind.... He and Victoria Winningham learning about love in the back seat of his old Plymouth Duster. The final bout with his old man that left him hell-bent on leaving Oklahoma--and his sweetheart--behind. Now he'd returned home to hear his father's final wish. Yet in the years he'd been away, his only regret was a redhead. A woman whose secret, he soon discovered, was of Bravo blood. A woman and child who would bear the Bravo name....

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Category Romance

256 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

New York Times bestselling author Christine Rimmer has written more than one hundred contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. She has won Romantic Times BOOKreview’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated seven times for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and five times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year.

A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays.

She now lives in Oregon with her family and two very contented cats named Tom and Ed.

Reviews

[Ginny M.]

This was a quick read that I really enjoyed. It had a good hook and the ending was a zinger.

[Jennell Brown]

I really liked this book.

[Sheryl]

Won't win any awards but gets the job done. Not happy the heroine ends up agreeing with the hero's accusation she 'should have tried harder' to track him down (you return multiple unopened letters from someone, your ignorance was your choice, you ask me), but he wasn't a serious jerk about it, and there were a couple of other times he touched on jerkiness and then reeled himself back to reality. The kid is a little too perfect, but at least she isn't annoying. And the mystery/this is part of a series thing was about at the right level for a romance novel, and well integrated in the main conflict.

This author could teach Diane Palmer a lot about how to hook someone into a series. If the first Palmer I ever read had been one of the later ones in the Long Tall Texans series, that would have been the last Palmer I ever read. This is the first Christine Rimmer I've read and I'm tempted to go track down the rest of the series, which I NEVER do with a category series unless I heard about it from a friend in the first place (i.e., the series theme is particularly compelling to me, like midwives or something).

[Tia]

I found this novel long winded and kind of boring. It wasn't the worst that I've read but it most certainly wasn't the best. I think the novel could of been written a lot better, to entertain the reader more. This novel was way too straight forward, for the plot.

[Booklover]

Had read it long time back but enjoyed it thoroughly.If i remember correctly this was the first book from Bravo Series that i started and it got me hooked to this family.

[Harlequin Books]

Miniseries: Conveniently Yours
Category: Contemporary Romance

[Jeanette Arens]

Not one of her best but stil love reading about a bravo