She turned him down. Twice. Karin Killigan refuses to marry Liam Bravo solely for the sake of their pending baby. This time, the widowed mother of two is holding out for true lasting love. And even though she is knee-deep in kids and family chaos, Karin and Liam’s attraction is hotter than ever, but Karin won’t settle. Liam will have to prove he’s in it for love if he wants a family for his … for his baby’s first Christmas.
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Will Karin finally marry Liam Bravo? She’s having his baby. She has said no twice when he asked her to marry him. Will Liam give up on her?
The Right Reason to Marry” is a story by Christine Rimmer and great addition to the Valentine Bay Bravo Family series.
This story is about Karin Killigan & Liam Bravo. Karin is a widowed mother of two and is now pregnant with Liam’s baby and hasn’t told him yet. A chance meeting at the Safeway grocery store, Liam see she is pregnant and does the math. Liam wants to marry Karin but she doesn’t want to marry for the wrong reasons. She has been there, done that and refuses to do it again. Sh wants true everlasting Love!!!! Liam moves into the cottage next door and is very determined to be there for both the baby and her children. Will Liam be able to convince Karin that he is it for the long haul and true love. Read to find out and Enjoy!!!
Christine Rimmer continues with her Bravos of Valentine Bay series with this book and shows us that sometimes it pays to wait for the right reason. I loved Liam and Karin’s story. How Liam puts himself out there and keeps trying until Karin sees he KNOWS he’s asking for the right reason. I can’t wait for the rest of the family’s stories. Thanks Christine.
I loved this latest book of the Valentine Bay Series by Christine Rimmer. Karin and Liam’s story is a heartwarming story about love and learning to trust. It takes place during the holiday season and is full of festive family traditions.
Follow Karin and Liam’s story as they try to find the best path forward to co-parenting their new son while trying to build a relationship that has Karin not trusting her instincts on love and marriage because she and her first husband got married for the wrong reason, Karin had fallen pregnant and even though they loved each other they married at a young age because of the baby. Karin had a son and a daughter from that marriage and she wouldn’t change the fact that she had two beautiful children Ben and Coco from that union.
However, she doesn’t want to make that same mistake with Liam. Even though Liam proves to her time and time again that he will be a good father to their son as well as her two children and that he won’t leave her or his son she has a hard time believing that he is telling the truth. Until she begins to see the proof that he means what he says. Liam is good with her children and her father likes him very much.
Liam rents the cottage next to Karin and her family’s home and they share parenting their son. Eventually Karin learns to trust in Liam as being the good guy that he is and she starts to let him in. They find their way to one another and Karin decides to take a chance on love. I hope you will enjoy reading The Right Reason to Marry as much as I did.
The Right Reasons to Marry is the fifth book in Christine Rimmer’s the Bravos of Valentine Bay. We were first introduced to Karin and Liam in Switched at Birth.
Liam first discovers he’s going to be a father when he runs into Karin at the grocery store. Shocked at first, he upends his life and moves next door to Karin and her family. Karin has a lot of baggage from her first marriage. Every time Liam feels he’s made one step forward, Karin retreats.
This is an emotional story as Karin deals with her past and Liam does everything in his power to reach her. I loved Karin’s children. Her son Ben was wise beyond his years and her daughter Coco was hilarious.
It was heartwarming watching these characters find their way. This is a standalone book but I highly recommend reading this and all of the book in the Valentine Bay series. I received an advanced copy of The Right Reasons to Marry which I chose to read and review. This is my honest review.
Blindsided…You’re at the Safeway, and a woman you’ve been intimate with walks through the door at the same time…VERY PREGNANT. You quickly do the math, then ask the only question that comes to mind. Is it mine?
Confronted…You’re at the Safeway and the man who you haven’t seen for months walks past. Greetings are exchanged and you can see the wheels turning in his head. He asks, Is it mine? Well holy pete…you say the only thing that pops right into your brain and answer truthfully, Yes.
Liam wants to do the right thing and asks Karin to marry him. After a first marriage that began with a pregnancy and ended with a tragedy, Karin doesn’t want to revisit a ‘forced’ marriage, so she turns him down. What follows is a lesson in patience for Liam, and an eyeopening lesson in true love for Karin.
What a lovely story. There are cute kids, new holiday traditions, acceptance, family, and joy, along with heartache, bruised feelings, and misunderstandings. Ultimately, can the issues Karin has with marriage be turned around by Liam’s steadfast actions?
Another winner in the Bravos of Valentine Bay series.
A wonderful book.
This was a wonderful and emotional read, I was excited to read Karin and Liam’s story after meeting them in Switched at Birth. Liam finds out that Karin is pregnant with his child, very pregnant, Karin is very hesitant to get involved with Liam just because of the baby. It was beautiful to see their relationship grow. It was an emotional read as you saw Karin’s wall slowly being broken by Liam and his true love for her. Like Karin said to Liam, “we did this all backwards”. Another wonderful read!!
The Right Reason to Marry By Christine Rimmer
Karin Killigan and Liam Bravo are the main characters. Karin is pregnant with Liams baby but didn’t tell him that he was going to be a dad until a week before the baby is born. He wants to marry and she does not. She wants to marry for love or not at all. I really enjoyed this book. It was a fun read.
This was a fantastic and emotional book that opens with Liam Bravo getting the shock of his life. A chance encounter with the woman he had a very brief relationship with earlier in the year reveals that she is pregnant – very pregnant. Once he recovers his wits, Liam knows he wants to be involved in his baby’s life.
Karin kept putting off telling Liam about his impending fatherhood. She knows he’s a good man, and she’s sure that he will want to do “the right thing.” The problem is that she’s already had one marriage for that reason and it didn’t work out very well. There’s no way she’s going to risk her heart again for anything but real, lasting love.
Liam does exactly what Karin feared and proposes marriage. While he’s not happy about being turned down, he is undeterred in his desire to be part of the baby’s life. He also figures that he will keep trying to bring Karin around to his way of thinking. One of the things I loved about Liam is that when he makes a decision, he goes all in. Rather than trying to handle his involvement from his home in Astoria, he rents the cottage next door to Karin from her brother, Sten (Switched at Birth). Karin isn’t happy about it because it keeps Liam far too close for her peace of mind. I loved watching Liam’s transformation from carefree bachelor to daddy. The scenes with him and baby Riley, or RG as he calls him, are adorable. He also gets close to Karin’s father and her two children. But his main desire is to show Karin that they belong together.
Karin has a tough time keeping distance between herself and Liam. Everything he does shows her that he could be the man to make her happy. But her first marriage left her wary of trusting her judgment when it comes to her feelings. She had loved Bud with all her young heart, but he wasn’t ready to be a father and husband. He withdrew, spending more time away than with the family, and even when he was home he wasn’t really there.
I loved seeing the development of the relationship between Liam and Karin. Karin ended their earlier relationship when the intensity of her feelings scared her, exacerbated by the discovery that she was pregnant. She was afraid that if she told Liam about the pregnancy, she wouldn’t be able to resist him and would repeat her mistakes. In spite of the breakup, neither Liam nor Karin forgot what it was like when they were together. From the moment Liam found out about the baby, he was there for Karin, day in and day out. The more time they spent together, the deeper their connection grew. They also discovered that their attraction was just as strong as it had ever been.
I think Karin frustrated me almost as much as she frustrated Liam. She welcomes him into her home and her life, encouraging him to spend as much time as possible with Riley. But at the same time, she tries desperately to keep her distance emotionally. Even when they give in to the attraction between them, Karin insists on keeping it a secret. Every time that Liam tries to talk about the future, she shuts him down. I ached for Liam, who realized that he loved her and wanted to marry her and make a family with her, but could not break through the walls she had around her heart. I hurt for Karin, too, because part of her knew she was falling for Liam, but she could not let go of her fears. My heart broke for both of them when she panicked over his second proposal. I liked the advice that Liam got from Daniel that helped him hang on to hope. But my favorite was the advice that Karin received from her brother Sten, who capped it off with the comment, “Super painful, isn’t it? When your own words come back to bite you in the ass…” I loved Karin and Liam’s big moment at the end, especially seeing Karin finally put the past behind her and believe in their love.
I loved the secondary characters, too. Karin’s dad, Otto, was terrific. I liked the way that he and Liam bonded, and how he supported both of them. I liked his subtle and not-so-subtle ways of throwing Karin and Liam together. Liam’s family was great in the way that they supported Liam in his efforts to win Karin over. I especially liked how they already considered Karin and her kids family because of Sten’s marriage to Madison. My favorites were Karin’s kids, Ben and Coco. Ben is such a serious little boy, mature for his age, but also showing unexpected vulnerability. His man-to-man talk with Liam was sweet but also heartbreaking in what it revealed. Coco was a trip. Her variety of superhero personas was fun, as was her boundless enthusiasm for everything. I laughed out loud at her lunch with Liam and the story of the leftovers. I loved seeing them wiggle their way into Liam’s heart.