Adopted Son

Jeremiah ‘Tuck’ Tucker finds a toddler at the scene of a murder/suicide and finds himself touched by the young child’s problems when no family members want to care for him. When he tries to adopt Brady, the young boy, he learns how hard it is for a single man to be granted custody of a non-relative, but continues the battle to make this little boy his first child.

Grace Whitten has become part of Tuck’s extended family when his foster brother married her sister. Although these two are far from close, Tuck finds himself in a custody battle for Brady where she is legal counsel for the other party involved and it smarts that she does not think he is the best guardian. Grace just knows her friend from college longs for a child, and has her heart set on this little boy, when she finds out Tuck is involved, she must make a hard decision.

ADOPTED SON is a novel filled not only with romance but emotion. The emotions run from joy to heartbreaking sadness, from humor to horror and hits all the highs and lows in between. Linda Warren draws readers in from the first scene where Brady is alone and eating dog food to survive. Tuck’s story will bring tears to reader’s eyes when he tells the story of how he came to be the man he is today. Later tears of joy streamed down this reader’s face when Tuck and Grace become the family they long to be.

Tuck is the man all mothers want their sons to become. There is not a character flaw that could ruin this man; his only downfall was the need to salvage his pride with Grace. When she finds herself in his sights as a potential enemy lust overtakes them both, and they find they need more than what either can handle alone. As the story heats up, Grace takes over her own life and tells her father just what she wants to do in life, instead of being Daddy’s ‘son’ and gives the story a dimension that makes this one of the best Harlequin Romance novels written, in this reviewers opinion.

ADOPTED SON was part of this month’s Cowboy Country miniseries, and although it is a given that all cowboy hero’s are hot, I highly recommend finding out for yourself just how hot this hero is, this novel is an emotional sensuous read that will leave you wanting your very own cowboy to make your dreams come true!

September 2007