A TEXAS-MADE FAMILY by Roz Denny Fox

A TEXAS-MADE FAMILY by Roz Denny Fox
Publisher Harlequin Super Romance
Date published October 2008
ISBN 978-0-373-71518-3
Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback
Reviewed by Angie




Rebecca Geroux feels that her children are her number one priority in life. Their happiness and seeing them succeed is all that she has time for. She is working two jobs, and doing everything she can to make sure they have dinner together and work well as a family. Although money and time is always tight things seem to be going well until her daughter Lisa’s grades begin to slip and she finds out that Lisa is skipping on studying to go to baseball games to see a boy play.

Grant Lane has just retired from the military and moved to San Antonio to get to know his kids and to be the father he has never been. Having lived on military bases and always having hired staff, he is now getting to realize just how tough being a parent is. When Rebecca contacts him and asks him to put a stop to his son’s interest in her daughter, he finds her irresistible and can’t understand why she wants to stop the teenagers from having fun.

You, Me & The Kids from Harlequin’s Super Romance line always leaves me smiling as a reader and A TEXAS-MADE FAMILY is no exception. Roz Denny Fox is a talented writer who never leaves her stories unfinished, she gives as good as it gets, and is a sure bet to a winning story. She filled this novel with touching scenes, loving characters and a dog. What more can a reader want?

Rebecca and Grant are both parents who want the best for their children. When they meet, they both feel the attraction. Grant can see no reason not to pursue Rebecca, yet Rebecca feels she has no time for romance, and only wants to fix Lisa’s grades and make her daughter understand the value of an education. The interaction between these two is enough to make readers swoon. If every parent worked as hard as these two to make a successful family, divorce would be much less common.

This novel may have a great hero and heroine, but what really makes it shine is the cast of secondary characters. Rebecca’s teens are both honest and loveable, Grant’s son is hard headed but wants the best for his friend, even when she doesn’t agree, and throw in Grant’s eleven year old daughter, who just wants a mother, and you have a cast of characters worthy of a great romance novel. Add in an ex-husband who is incarcerated, and wants revenge on his ex-wife, and the suspense turns a great romance into the perfect novel. This novel takes first place on this reader’s shelf this month.