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Bravo Family #26
Christmas at Bravo Ridge
Well, if lightning didn't strike twice, then how could a night of passion with her former lover, Matt Bravo, leave Connie Lonnigan pregnant with his child…for the second time? They already had a beautiful little girl, and they'd finally come to terms with their can't-live-with-can't-live-without-each-other relationship. And now this!
Texas tycoon Matt Bravo had let Connie slip through his fingers five years ago, and he was not about to make the same mistake again. He had to convince her that he was the man for her, now and forever. To make this a Christmas to remember—for all four of them…
Texas tycoon Matt Bravo had let Connie slip through his fingers five years ago, and he was not about to make the same mistake again. He had to convince her that he was the man for her, now and forever. To make this a Christmas to remember—for all four of them…
219 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 2009
About the author
Christine Rimmer
755 books433 followersNew 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.
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.
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January 21, 2012
Rating 3.5
I have a thing, I tend to enjoy books with strong heroine, those who lead heroes on a merry chase and Corrie was kind of like that. She was raised by a single mother after her father abandoned them and runs a bar and is also the mother of Matt Bravo's five year old daughter.
Her life seems to be going well, after a shaky start Matt and she have figured things out and are best friends and she is engaged to a great guy, a pastor when one night when Matt is mocking her fiancee and sitting at her place, wondering soon he wouldn't have any right on her and makes a move and somehow they end up in bed together and Corrie is full of recriminations, she's engaged and has put behind her disappointment with Matt, he is who he is, from a rich family who wanted someone of his own social standing, not a woman like her, even if he did make a token gesture of saying he would marry her, if she wanted six years ago.
She is honest and her engagement is off and somehow feels relived about it and so does Matt who keeps calling her while she ignores him. Then they talk and somehow Matt wants them to get married, since they are perfect together, he has figured out after dating the rich society types that they are not for him and finally he's mature enough to do the right thing but Corrie refuses outright and says why spoil a good thing.
Then there is Matt's mom and dad who are separated after the events of the last book and Matt's mom comes to live with Corrie. Corrie doesn't like his dad, he trashed her when she was expecting Matt's baby and she hasn't forgotten it.
I liked how mature yet wary she was. She didn't give in to Matt's cajoling because she didn't trust him and when she finally confronts the fact that all along she has loved him and that's why she turned him down, she is not willing to settle for less even if she's pregnant again.
I didn't like Matt that much, how he told her to take the morning after pill was a fact that didn't sit well with me and his reaction to the pregnancy also chaffed. All in all I loved the heroine, the hero not so much.
I have a thing, I tend to enjoy books with strong heroine, those who lead heroes on a merry chase and Corrie was kind of like that. She was raised by a single mother after her father abandoned them and runs a bar and is also the mother of Matt Bravo's five year old daughter.
Her life seems to be going well, after a shaky start Matt and she have figured things out and are best friends and she is engaged to a great guy, a pastor when one night when Matt is mocking her fiancee and sitting at her place, wondering soon he wouldn't have any right on her and makes a move and somehow they end up in bed together and Corrie is full of recriminations, she's engaged and has put behind her disappointment with Matt, he is who he is, from a rich family who wanted someone of his own social standing, not a woman like her, even if he did make a token gesture of saying he would marry her, if she wanted six years ago.
She is honest and her engagement is off and somehow feels relived about it and so does Matt who keeps calling her while she ignores him. Then they talk and somehow Matt wants them to get married, since they are perfect together, he has figured out after dating the rich society types that they are not for him and finally he's mature enough to do the right thing but Corrie refuses outright and says why spoil a good thing.
Then there is Matt's mom and dad who are separated after the events of the last book and Matt's mom comes to live with Corrie. Corrie doesn't like his dad, he trashed her when she was expecting Matt's baby and she hasn't forgotten it.
I liked how mature yet wary she was. She didn't give in to Matt's cajoling because she didn't trust him and when she finally confronts the fact that all along she has loved him and that's why she turned him down, she is not willing to settle for less even if she's pregnant again.
I didn't like Matt that much, how he told her to take the morning after pill was a fact that didn't sit well with me and his reaction to the pregnancy also chaffed. All in all I loved the heroine, the hero not so much.
March 10, 2026
Happy Christmas Family
When is it the right time to fall in love? How do you know its the right time? Or, that you are in love? Corrine and Matt haven't figured it all out yet even after having a child together years ago. Christmas is a time for miracles. Hopefully, these three can find the time is right for them to become a family this Christmas. Engaging characters, dilemmas caused by miscommunication and misunderstandings, and childhood trauma. A heartwarming holiday story. Enjoy!
When is it the right time to fall in love? How do you know its the right time? Or, that you are in love? Corrine and Matt haven't figured it all out yet even after having a child together years ago. Christmas is a time for miracles. Hopefully, these three can find the time is right for them to become a family this Christmas. Engaging characters, dilemmas caused by miscommunication and misunderstandings, and childhood trauma. A heartwarming holiday story. Enjoy!
August 28, 2020
I pulled this out of a box and reread it. Still a good read. Matt and Corrie were a great couple.
November 19, 2010
Great chemistry between the leads. I do wish they'd been honest about their feelings earlier, but then I guess there wouldn't have been much of a story. I liked that the heroine wasn't willing to settle for marriage without love.
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August 11, 2010
It was a good read I enjoyed it even if the leads were stupid with each other. I mean if you love someone you tell them so. Anyways I liked this book.
September 16, 2015
Meh. Not one of the best sappy books, but not one of the worst. I wish there was a flash-forward epilogue with the new baby. It would've been cute.
November 27, 2018
Yikes these characters were hella dumb. There was barely any Christmas at all. There was a mean dad and a bitchy other woman but they didn’t do much. And the hero and heroine were just making the same mistakes over and over! Grow up, have a truthful conversation and get together, jeez not as hard as they were making it. “Were best friends wah, my dad left wah, you didn’t fit in my plans wah” dude you guys got a kid! Like why avoid being together?
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