Mother to Be

Navajo Family Blessings #3

by Cheryl Reavis

Mother To Be by Cheryl Reavis released on Mar 25, 1997 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

AKA Cinda Richards

Former public health nurse, now award-winning romance novelist, Cheryl Reavis, describes herself as a "late bloomer." Her Silhouette Special Edition™, A CRIME OF THE HEART, reached millions of readers in Good Housekeeping magazine and won the Romance Writers of America's coveted RITA award the year it was published. She has also won the RITA award for her Harlequin-Silhouette novels, PATRICK GALLAGHER'S WIDOW, THE PRISONER, and THE BRIDE FAIR. BLACKBERRY WINTER, THE BARTERED BRIDE and a Berkley novel, PROMISE ME A RAINBOW, have been RITA award finalists. She has received numerous awards from Romantic Times magazine.

Her award-winning literary short stories have appeared in The Crescent Review, The Bad Apple, The Mosaic, The Sanskrit, Laurels, The Emrys Journal and Writer's Choice.

Publishers Weekly described her Berkley single-title novel, PROMISE ME A RAINBOW, as "...an example of delicately crafted, eminently satisfying romantic fiction."

Reviews

[Saly · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25 stars

[Malika-Liki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this story of mid forty Lilian and Becenti, her brother Luca's chief.
I loved their opposition, their characters, their love.
I loved the way Cheryl Reavis make us live their lives, their struggles to fit.
I loved the moment she explianed her souvenir with her father , my heart broke, and the moment Sloane gave her a lecture, speaking about her own experience with Lucas, their choices. I was pained that Sloane and Lucas couldn't have their own. A beautiful story about roots, belongings, wanting to fit, family bonds (blood and of choice). A beautiful read.
Again don't judge a book by its cover or by the collection and edition.

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 Stars! ~ Johnny Becenti is Captain of the Navajo Tribal Police. His wife has recently died after a very long illness, and Johnny decides to retreat to his family sheep ranch. He refuses to see anyone or to return to his home in Window Rock. Lillian Singer is a lawyer living off the reservation. She's known Johnny pretty much all their lives, and has clashed with him a time or two professionally. Johnny's always disapproved of her choice to be off the res, so she's surprised when her mother brings Johnny's mother to see her, to convince her to go to Johnny and talk sense in him. Lillian doesn't feel it's her place to interfere, until the night her long time white boyfriend dumps her for a prettier and younger woman. Then all Lillian can think to do is leave town, so she's off to save Johnny. When she arrives, he's ill with a terrible fever. Giving Johnny the help he needs, only brings him into her life. They had always irritated each other, now that irritation has become unwanted attraction. One thing leads to another and Lilian finds herself pregnant with Johnny's baby. But everything is so complicated. Johnny's wants marriage and life on the res; Lilian wants her career and life in the city; and Lilian's old boyfriend keeps popping up.

Another awesome story. Ms. Reavis knows just the right words to bring her characters to life. Both Johnny and Lilian have to face the paths their lives are on. Choosing to take the path together took courage and alot of soul searching.