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The Callahan Brothers #2
River Road
JoAnn Ross, one of the most passionate voices in contemporary romantic fiction, returns to the moss-draped splendor of Blue Bayou in a powerful novel of love and suspense, filled with characters you will never forget. Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, wrapping up her role on the sizzling soap opera River Road before jetting off to play the part of her dreams. But when she receives an all-too-real threat, her director saddles her with a no-nonsense FBI agent as protection. Free-spirited Julia figures she'll just use her feminine wiles to keep the handsome bodyguard out of her way. Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor. When danger closes in on Julia, Finn realizes that what he feels for her is much more than physical attraction. Now he'll willingly lay his life on the line for the woman who has shown him how beautiful life can be when it's filled with laughter and love.
400 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2002
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JoAnn Ross
238 books798 followersNew York Times bestselling author JoAnn Ross has written over a hundred novels for a bunch of publishers. Two of her titles have been excerpted in Cosmo and her books have also been published by the Doubleday, Rhapsody, Literary Guild, and Mystery Guild book clubs.
A member of the Romance Writers of America's Honor Roll of best-selling authors, she's won several awards, including Romantic Times's Career Achievement Awards in both category and contemporary single title.
Currently writing a new Honeymoon Harbor series for HQN set on the Washington peninsula, that will launch in April, 2018, JoAnn lives with her husband (her high school sweetheart, who proposed at the sea wall where her Shelter Bay books are set), in the Pacific Northwest.
A member of the Romance Writers of America's Honor Roll of best-selling authors, she's won several awards, including Romantic Times's Career Achievement Awards in both category and contemporary single title.
Currently writing a new Honeymoon Harbor series for HQN set on the Washington peninsula, that will launch in April, 2018, JoAnn lives with her husband (her high school sweetheart, who proposed at the sea wall where her Shelter Bay books are set), in the Pacific Northwest.
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February 15, 2022
okay so obviously i love a good FBI protector trope so I loved the idea of this book. I got so confused between the scenes that were part of the TV show and scenes of the actual story line, i also thought soem scenes were wicked cheesy (although sometimes that was good). Also the fact her parents were hippies was so unnecessary and came up far too often. I think it’s a good story and definitely has some good tropes.
June 18, 2009
This is second in the Callahan brothers trilogy by Joann Ross. I liked this one equally as well as the first Blue Bayou. This one in particular focuses on the oldest brother Finn. I really liked Finn, although he was rigid and stubborn.
Finn is an FBI agent that has just been suspended for beating up a prisoner that was trying to escape. The same prisoner that he has just spent three very long years chaseing down and arresting. He returnes to his home town of Blue Bayou to hide out for the next month until his suspension is over. His little brother, the mayor, approaches him to be a body gaurd for a TV actress that is filming at their other brothers home. He doesn't want to accept the assignment, but is talked into protecting her for two weeks until she leaves for Nepal to film a movie.
Julia is a night time soap star that has recieved threatning letters that the studio thinks could very well be real. She doesn't want to take it seriously but for insurance purposes she goes along. She isn't all that impressed when she meets Finn Callahan. He is in a suit in Louisiana. Hello! It is hot outside. He seems really uptight and everything this guy stands for is opposite of what she was taught by her Hippie parents. But she only has to take the situation for two weeks until she leaves for Nepal to film her role as Bond Girl, Carma Sutra.
Julia is definately trouble for Finn. She is beautiful and much nicer than he thought she would be and she is to be a Bond Girl. He has read every 007 book Flemming wrote. He is a huge fan. Now they have something in common too.
While they both fight their attraction, they are learning more and more about each other and eventually decide to act on the attraction, though not to become involved beyond their time together while filming in Blue Bayou.
Julia is kiddnapped while filming the last scene. Finn is frantic not knowing where she is and if she is okay. But Julia is very smart and the kidnappers aren't. She talks one of them into untieing her. Then escapes and finds her way through the fog in the bayou to a bar, located in the middle of nowhere. But even though she is now safe from the stalker, there is another threat. Finn's prisoner has really escaped this time and can't be found. He needs to return to the Agency to search for him. But Finn has a feeling that the killer could come after him. And when he does he uses Julia to taunt Finn. In the end Finn and Julia know each other so well that when he gives her a signal she drops and finn shoots the killer and saves Julia.
Now you think that they will finally be together, but Finn is afraid that their lives are too different and that they can't work out their issues about work and location. After sending Julia on to Nepal and drinking himself unconcience, he comes to see that he can't be without her and after asking her hippie father for permission, he flys to Nepal and asks her to marry him. He has solved their location and work issues by starting a corporate security buisness with his partner from the FBI, locating the buisness in LA close to her work, and fulfilling Julia's fantasy of living with Finn and haveing a family together.
Finn is an FBI agent that has just been suspended for beating up a prisoner that was trying to escape. The same prisoner that he has just spent three very long years chaseing down and arresting. He returnes to his home town of Blue Bayou to hide out for the next month until his suspension is over. His little brother, the mayor, approaches him to be a body gaurd for a TV actress that is filming at their other brothers home. He doesn't want to accept the assignment, but is talked into protecting her for two weeks until she leaves for Nepal to film a movie.
Julia is a night time soap star that has recieved threatning letters that the studio thinks could very well be real. She doesn't want to take it seriously but for insurance purposes she goes along. She isn't all that impressed when she meets Finn Callahan. He is in a suit in Louisiana. Hello! It is hot outside. He seems really uptight and everything this guy stands for is opposite of what she was taught by her Hippie parents. But she only has to take the situation for two weeks until she leaves for Nepal to film her role as Bond Girl, Carma Sutra.
Julia is definately trouble for Finn. She is beautiful and much nicer than he thought she would be and she is to be a Bond Girl. He has read every 007 book Flemming wrote. He is a huge fan. Now they have something in common too.
While they both fight their attraction, they are learning more and more about each other and eventually decide to act on the attraction, though not to become involved beyond their time together while filming in Blue Bayou.
Julia is kiddnapped while filming the last scene. Finn is frantic not knowing where she is and if she is okay. But Julia is very smart and the kidnappers aren't. She talks one of them into untieing her. Then escapes and finds her way through the fog in the bayou to a bar, located in the middle of nowhere. But even though she is now safe from the stalker, there is another threat. Finn's prisoner has really escaped this time and can't be found. He needs to return to the Agency to search for him. But Finn has a feeling that the killer could come after him. And when he does he uses Julia to taunt Finn. In the end Finn and Julia know each other so well that when he gives her a signal she drops and finn shoots the killer and saves Julia.
Now you think that they will finally be together, but Finn is afraid that their lives are too different and that they can't work out their issues about work and location. After sending Julia on to Nepal and drinking himself unconcience, he comes to see that he can't be without her and after asking her hippie father for permission, he flys to Nepal and asks her to marry him. He has solved their location and work issues by starting a corporate security buisness with his partner from the FBI, locating the buisness in LA close to her work, and fulfilling Julia's fantasy of living with Finn and haveing a family together.
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October 12, 2024
Callahan Brothers Book 2
"Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, wrapping up her role on the sizzling soap opera River Road before jetting off to play the part of her dreams. But when she receives an all-too-real threat, her director saddles her with a no-nonsense FBI agent as protection. Free-spirited Julia figures she'll just use her feminine wiles to keep the handsome bodyguard out of her way.
Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor. When danger closes in on Julia, Finn realizes that what he feels for her is much more than physical attraction. Now he'll willingly lay his life on the line for the woman who has shown him how beautiful life can be when it's filled with laughter and love."
Enjoyed it, can't wait to finish the series.
"Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, wrapping up her role on the sizzling soap opera River Road before jetting off to play the part of her dreams. But when she receives an all-too-real threat, her director saddles her with a no-nonsense FBI agent as protection. Free-spirited Julia figures she'll just use her feminine wiles to keep the handsome bodyguard out of her way.
Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor. When danger closes in on Julia, Finn realizes that what he feels for her is much more than physical attraction. Now he'll willingly lay his life on the line for the woman who has shown him how beautiful life can be when it's filled with laughter and love."
Enjoyed it, can't wait to finish the series.
August 22, 2017
Finn is a macho man and a strong lead. Julia seems like a flake but actually has her sh%t together. Now it's time for little brother Nate to find love in Blue Bayou.
February 24, 2022
Great read
December 12, 2017
Seriously I hate myself for reading this book. No pun intended to the writer!
May 27, 2010
Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, wrapping up her role on the sizzling soap opera River Road before jetting off to play the part of her dreams. But when she receives an all-too-real threat, her director saddles her with a no-nonsense FBI agent as protection. Free-spirited Julia figures she'll just use her feminine wiles to keep the handsome bodyguard out of her way.
Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor. When danger closes in on Julia, Finn realizes that what he feels for her is much more than physical attraction. Now he'll willingly lay his life on the line for the woman who has shown him how beautiful life can be when it's filled with laughter and love. [close:]
Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor. When danger closes in on Julia, Finn realizes that what he feels for her is much more than physical attraction. Now he'll willingly lay his life on the line for the woman who has shown him how beautiful life can be when it's filled with laughter and love. [close:]
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May 30, 2015This is the second book in the Callahan Brothers Trilogy - Blue Bayou.
Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, wrapping up her role on the sizzling soap opera, River Road before jetting off to play the part of her dream. But when she receives an all-too-real threat, her director saddles her with a no-nonsense FBI agent as protection. Free-spirited Julia figures she'll just use her feminine wiles to keep the handsome bodyguard out of her way.
Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor.
Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, wrapping up her role on the sizzling soap opera, River Road before jetting off to play the part of her dream. But when she receives an all-too-real threat, her director saddles her with a no-nonsense FBI agent as protection. Free-spirited Julia figures she'll just use her feminine wiles to keep the handsome bodyguard out of her way.
Finn Callahan has no interest in baby-sitting a spoiled starlet, but he owes his brother, Blue Bayou's mayor, a favor.
June 20, 2015
I have really enjoyed these books. Ms. Ross has a way with romance and telling a story with very strong chacters. This book is about Finn, the oldest of the Callahan brothers who was always strong and there for his brothers when their a Dad was killed. He became a FBI agent which really fit his personality until he met Julia Summers. He had been asked by his brother, the mayor, to be her bodyguard while she was in Blue Bayou filming a soap opera. They were completely opposites but sometimes it takes different views to make your point, and Julia did.
Great read
Great read
March 2, 2024
Julia Summers is in Blue Bayou, Louisiana, filming shows for the soap opera River Road before she leaves the series. But she is receiving disturbing photos indicating someone close to her is watching her. FBI agent Finn Callahan is off on 4 weeks suspension and is asked by his brother to be her bodyguard.
June 20, 2013
Joann ross is still a very good author and I will read the next book in this trillogy. I thought the story was very suspenseful. I love that ms. ross dedicates her books to the men and women in the milletary.
February 11, 2014
I loved this book. It has so many things that I love combined in to a novel, there was know way I couldn't fall in love with it. A soap opera, the South, gorgeous men, a little mystery, and a steamy romance. All that equals perfection. I recommend this book and Joann Ross.
May 22, 2008
I have just finished re-reading this trilogy and it was as good a read as I remembered it to be!
June 30, 2010
Great characters but predictable plot.
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August 23, 2011Kind of a slump in the series.
November 22, 2011
It was okay. There was just a lot going on with a stalker and the serial killer and somehow I just couldn't get really into it.
January 12, 2012
Grt m/f lds, 2nds, loctn, procedurl. Romntc endg, ohhhhh
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August 6, 2018This is the sequel to Blue Bayou in the sense that this picks up the story of the eldest Callahan brother.. but I don't think there would be any problem if one were to read these out of order. Finn and Julia are metaphorically on opposite sides of the barricades - he's FBI and she's the daughter of hippies... I did find Finn's condemnation of Julia's background a bit teeth-grating, far more so than her mistrust of the FBI, given her family's difficulties, but maybe that's simply because of where my sympathies tend to lie.
I found this a very good read, with a few juicy red herrings thrown in for good measure.
I found this a very good read, with a few juicy red herrings thrown in for good measure.
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