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Waters Run Deep (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance) (2014)

by Liz Talley(Favorite Author)
3.63 of 5 Votes: 5
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Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance
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Bayou Bridge
review 1: Good book. Annie is in Louisiana posing as a nanny to help protect a little boy. She is also investigating who is making the threats against the family. When the threats continue in Louisiana Nate gets involved. He's pretty sure she's hiding something but he's certain that she isn't involved in the threats. Neither one expects the intense attraction between them and Annie is especially wary. The more time they spend together the more each one starts to hope for a future together.I liked both Annie and Nate. Annie was wary of getting attached to anyone. She had allowed herself to get close to a man and his daughter at a time she was vulnerable and it nearly ruined her career. Now she is trying to concentrate on her job and leave emotion out of it. She has been ass... moreigned to act as a nanny to five year old Spencer while she investigates who is making threats against him. She feels completely out of her depth while caring for him but she is doing the best she can. When Nate gets involved in the investigation she debates whether to tell him the truth about her status. As the investigation heats up, so does their attraction. I really loved seeing Annie with Spencer. She starts out really unsure of what she was doing with him and determined not to get too close to him. But the more she is with him the more comfortable she gets and the better she is able to deal with him. I really liked seeing the way that she really started to care about him. Her relationship with Nate was very interesting. Both of them pride themselves on their control but around each other that control disappears. They worked well together on the investigation but also had some control issues there as neither one really likes to play backup. I really liked the way that Annie came to love Louisiana and Bayou Bridge and dreamed of the possibility of staying there. I really enjoyed the way that she balanced head and heart at the end.Nate was a driven man. Twenty five years earlier his little sister had been kidnapped and was believed to be dead. He felt responsible and has spent his free time as an adult working on solving cold cases as a way to deal with his guilt. He is attracted to Annie as soon as he meets her but is suspicious of her at first also. Once they start working together that attraction really takes off. Besides working on the case with Annie, there is also a new lead in his sister's disappearance. I really liked Nate's obvious love for his somewhat flaky mother. I also liked the way that Nate was so supportive of Annie in her role and nanny to Spencer. He did a great job of showing her that she was much better at it than she thought she was. I loved seeing the way that she worked her way under his barriers and he began to believe that it was possible for him to have a happy future for himself. His feelings for her became clear to him at the end with the discovery of the person making the threats. I loved seeing the way that he accepted Annie exactly the way she was.
review 2: I had the pleasure of sitting next to Liz Talley at the RWA's Librarian's Day luncheon. She has a delightful Southern-type accent and thoroughly baffled my Yankee self with a story involving her dog and a fence. It took me longer than I'd care to admit before I figured out that the aforementioned fence probably wasn't a chain-link like I was used to, but something more unique to Southern climes. In any case, I used my phone to request this title at my local library before I even left the table. It's always a little troubling when you have a positive image of an author as a person, but then you read their book and you don't...love...it. I thought the writing was solid and Talley did a great job of describing the various Louisiana settings. However, I felt the romance was shoe-horned in (possibly a casualty of the word-count) and I had trouble buying some of the details behind Annie's career path & how she ended up as the kid's bodyguard. less
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tweeybird
I made four WTF notations after the 60 percent mark. The story really fell apart at the end for me.
shreesh
Accidentally stumbled upon this book. Very sweet but a bit tugging at heart strings also.
Johannah
A classic romance story that is intruiging, but yet suspenseful.
noah
Not bad, but not as good as her Oak Stand books.
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