Officer Dylan Blackburn wondered if Jennifer Reid remembered the innocent kiss they'd shared as children. There was so much that he remembered.

Jennifer Reid - was that really her name? - had secrets and a killer on her trail. She was hiding something and it was dangerous - could she trust Dylan with the truth?

Dylan Blackburn found it disturbing that she didn't seem to remember him at all.
Jarrett Blackburn is Dylan's older brother [he needs a story] and raises christmas trees.
Miss Bessie Shuford takes in Jennifer and employees her.
Larry Crutchfield is an Atlanta lawyer who seems to be involved in nefarious activities - what did he know about Jennifer?

Jennifer and Dylan found themselves ducking and dodging danger.

DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED - an excellent read you will enjoy --It follows MONTANA MAIL-ORDER WIFE [Harlequin American Romance]

While vastly inferior to Jane Austen, who followed a few years later, Rowson does stand out as one of the better early-American writers. In a style foreshadowing Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rowson shows how life punishes vice. The second book, Lucy Temple, is less pedantic and more entertaining. This book is best for enthusiasts of early American Literature.

Although better than the first book in this duet (which isn't saying much), "First-Class Father" is still only an OK read. The prologue tells you that a rich couple is searching for their twenty-five year old daughter who was taken from them at birth. Then we meet the twenty-five year old heroine. Guess who she is? The plot moves along quickly, and Heather and Dylan are likable, but I personally can't stand books where you know the guy is the father of the woman's baby, yet the characters don't get around to learning that forever. Predictable events and a too-cute epilogue ruin what could have been a real page-turner.

Charlotte Douglas returns to tell some "Montana Secrets" in her latest Intrigue. For five years, Catherine Erickson believed her fiancé, Ryan Christopher, was killed in an embassy bombing. She raised their daughter alone on her family's Montana ranch, until a mysterious stranger appeared in her life. He said he was a friend of Ryan's. So why hadn't she ever heard of him? Trace Gallagher couldn't reveal his true identity without putting Catherine in danger. Can he keep her safe without breaking her heart?

"Montana Secrets" was an okay story, but nothing special. It's a well-written book. The story moves quickly and the storytelling is smooth. The characters are charming, the emotions feel real, and while there isn't much actual suspense for most of the book, the story is engaging enough to keep readers turning the pages.

I think I would have enjoyed "Montana Secrets" more if I hadn't read the last few months of Intrigues first. This is the fourth month in a row where one of the Intrigues has been about a presumed dead man returning to the woman he loved. Linda O. Johnston's "Operation Reunited," Intrigue 655, was the most suspenseful and dramatic. Sylvie Kurtz's "Red Thunder Reckoning," Intrigue 657, had the richest characters. Harper Allen's "The Bride and the Mercenary," Intrigue 663, was the most romantic. All of those books had something that made them feel a little different and special. "Montana Secrets" didn't. By throwing in amnesia AND a secret child AND the Montana ranch setting, the author really makes this seem like the same old story most of us have read before.

There's really nothing wrong with "Montana Secrets." It's a nice book. There just wasn't anything that made it stand out and a little too much that made it feel like a story I'd read before. It's a little too predictable, a little too familiar. Readers who haven't read stories like this before and Douglas's fans should enjoy it more than I did. I would have to recommend any of those other books before this one.

I don't usually like romances with children or babies in them, because it often seems to me as if the author included them just so that there'd be a cuteness factor for the book. In this book, the baby is a vital part of the story, but I still don't like the story any better.

Devon Clarke, author of the immensely popular column "Bringing Up Baby", is a fraud. She knows nothing about babies. Unfortunately, two fans of hers, a couple who'd applied her advice to their own child, die, and they leave their baby to Devon. I thought this was a bit strange and contrived, since this couple had no way of knowing what kind of person Devon was or even what she looked like, since she never did interviews. Anyway, Colin O'Reilly, Devon's new carpenter, helps her out with the baby. She needs that help not only because she's miserably bad with the baby, but also because someone is causing accidents to happen around Devon, in order to make it look as if she can't properly care for the baby. On top of all of that, Devon needs to do her first tv interview, and she needs to produce a baby and a husband, fast. She's got a baby, so she figures all she needs to do is convince Colin to pretend to be her husband.

I never really liked Colin that much. He seemed to be pretty much against everything Devon did or decided to do. The romance between them was a little forced, especially since, if I were Devon, I would've been too mad about the way Colin was acting to even get around to romance. Then again, Devon wasn't too brilliant either, digging herself into a deeper hole with her lies by actually using Colin as the "husband" she'd made up and even going so far as to create a fake video tape of their wedding. Any normal person would've just ended up admitting that they'd made the whole "perfect wedding, perfect husband, perfect child" thing up.

I just picked this book up from the library and was a little disappointed. The better part of this book was a mystery, not a romance. The characters were not well developed and the only part I really liked was the very last scene, and even the romantic comments said in this scene were not believeable. Basically don't read this book if you actually want to read a romance.