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Promise Me a Rainbow Paperback – May 21, 2012

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4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
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“ . . . a delicately crafted, eminently satisfying romantic fiction. Reavis works magic . . . ” – Publishers Weekly

Two lonely people, scarred by betrayal and tragedy, believe that love is lost to them forever. . .
Deserted by her husband because she couldn't have children, Catherine Holben has thrown herself into her job counseling pregnant teens. Catherine is still recovering from the pain of her divorce, but her life is changed forever when she makes a purchase in a quaint curio shop. She meets handsome, hardworking Joe D'Amaro, a widower and father of three, and his daughter, Fritz. But Joe needs help with Fritz, a seven-year-old dynamo. She's a precocious but headstrong little girl who's impossible to resist., and he is too proud to admit it.
Joe and Catherine are cautious about making a commitment to each other. They both know the joy and heartache of falling in love, but are they willing to risk being together despite their misgivings? Neither can ignore the love that quickly blossoms between them. Maybe they can have a wonderful life together . . . if only Joe's still-grieving older daughter, Della, will accept a new woman in her father's life.

True love versus reality. Can Catherine handle his ready-made family? Or is there more in store for her than she thinks?

A four-time RITA winner and a three-time RITA finalist, Cheryl Reavis is the author of acclaimed romance novels including A Crime of the Heart, which was condensed in Good Housekeeping magazine. Visit her on Facebook, read her blog, Writing Life, www.cherylreavis.blogspot.com, and follow her on Twitter @sCRibblercheryl.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bell Bridge Books (May 21, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1611941296
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611941296
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 273 ratings

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An award-winning published author, Cheryl Reavis’s literary short stories have appeared in a number of “little magazines” such as The Crescent Review, Sanskrit, The Bad Apple, The Emrys Journal, and the Greensboro Group’s statewide competition anthology, WRITER’S CHOICE. Her contemporary romance novel, A CRIME OF THE HEART, reached millions of readers in Good Housekeeping magazine. She has won the Romance Writers of America’s coveted RITA award four times and she is a four-time finalist. Publishers Weekly described her contemporary novel, PROMISE ME A RAINBOW, as “…an example of delicately crafted, eminently satisfying romantic fiction…”

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Alas, my TBR shelf . . . so many books . . . so little time . . . with that in mind, Cheryl Reavis' books have patiently waited for me. And after finishing PROMISE ME A RAINBOW, I am forced to ask myself, "Why the wait?" for Cheryl Reavis' earlier books are true treasures.Release Date- June 1990From the Back Cover-A Time For Loving Is Coming Around Again . . .CATHERINE: She thought love was gone forever. Deserted by her husband because she couldn't have a child, she tried to put the bitter past behind her and start a new life.JOE: He still felt the tragic loss of his wife -- and barely knew how to handle his precocious seven-year-old daughter on his own. But the handsome, headstrong man vowed never to set himself up for pain again.Now Catherine and Joe are about to discover a forever kind of love they both thought they'd never recapture.My Review-After years of failing to have their own children, Catherine Holben's husband decided to move on to more fertile soil. Left all alone in the world, Catherine is truly lonely, until she meets hardworking, widower Joe D'Amaro, a handsome man with three children. Indeed, Catherine and Joe are two solitary people hauling excess baggage, but these two people are willing to see where a relationship could go. That is until Joe's eldest daughter Della strikes.PROMISE ME A RAINBOW is a well-written heart-warmer. However the very attributes that make PROMISE ME A RAINBOW a personal favorite are the same attributes that could grate on another readers' nerves. If that sounds like damning with praise, keep in mind that what one person deems unworthy is another's treasure. For this reader, I truly enjoyed this romance. Cheryl Reavis knows exactly how to spin a tale offering sections that twisted my heart strings. The scenes involving Joe's youngest daughter, Fritz, are indeed touching, with each word whispering pain and anguish. There is no doubt, this is my cup of tea; so much so, that I hurried to order Cheryl Reavis' earlier works, written under her pseudonym Cinda Richards. So why not the perfect grade of A+? Quite honestly, I wanted more with the adorable Fritz and less with the atrocious Della. I know every story needs a little conflict; yet, I wanted to read about the cherubic Fritz.Sigh, in one big step PROMISE ME A RAINBOW moved from TBR shelf to my revered Keeper shelf.Rating: ASensuality: WarmMaryGrace Meloche.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and true
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2012
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Cheryl Reavis is an auto-buy for me, because I've enjoyed so many of her books in the past. What always stands out for me is how three-dimensional her characters are -- they're flawed, they say hurtful things in the heat of the moment and occasionally act irrationally but are also capable of tremendous loyalty, courage and caring.

Bad things sometimes happen to good people, and this book doesn't shy away from that. Catherine is still reeling from the divorce her husband demanded when she couldn't conceive and Joe is still grieving his wife's death. Their love story unfolds slowly; these two are emotionally fragile, and have little time and energy since most of their waking hours are devoted to work and family (in Catherine's case, extended family in the form of her students as well as friend Pat). But both adore Fritz, Joe's seven-year-old daughter, who is a sweet and timid child whose brain is always in overdrive as she tries to seek answers and comfort without burdening or upsetting anyone. Fritz especially tries to avoid making demands on her hard-working father, because she doesn't want to add to his existing troubles.

This is a really satisfying read. Sometimes I'll read a romance and the HAE leaves me doubtful because the couple never fully deals with their emotional baggage, but that's far from true in this case: Catherine and Joe truly earn their happy ending.

Highly recommended!
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mary s
4.0 out of 5 stars Emotional read about people finding happiness unexpectedly
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2017
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A really good story about people finding happiness unexpectedly. As usual with Cheryl Reavis we have a finely woven plot linking characters in the most unusual and heartwarming ways. This is a romantic story but also a story about a family or forming new families.
The characters are wonderfully layered and complex: Joe and Catherine, both with emotional scars and a lot of baggage, Joe’s children, and the other secondary characters.
The dialogue is vivid – although sometimes Fritz’s utterances seem much older than her years – and the action had enough twists to keep me interested until the end.
I found it cute that the frequent telephone calls between characters reveal a not so recent historical period, but the story is still a powerfully emotional read.
Some aspects were not solved as well as I would like – with Joe’s recalcitrant daughter, Della, or with his evil sister-in-law – but those were minor details.
4 solid stars!
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JJares
5.0 out of 5 stars Tender, Tough and Touching
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018
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This contemporary story is about Catherine and Jonathan, who have divorced (sometime earlier) because they cannot have children and Jonathan wants them desperately. Jonathan tells Catherine that he is getting married again and leaves her apartment. On the stairs are Joe and Fritz, who overhear much of the conversation. They leave without talking to Catherine.

Earlier that afternoon, Catherine bought a gnome sculpture at a resale store and the owner of the shop asked for her home number and name. She felt that the family would want to buy the gnome sculpture back when they had the money. Joe's family hated selling it but were financially strapped.

Fritz sneaks away from home and goes back to see the gnomes and Catherine is so nice that Fritz fantasizes about Catherine being her mother.

To earn money, Catherine has become a school teacher for pregnant girls, to keep them in high school. Catherine was a nurse and is prepared to teach the girls about prenatal nutrition, emotional health and getting ready to care for a baby full-time.

This is a complex plotline with lots going on through the story. Having worked with pregnant females, I found the story to be accurate and just as sad as it is in real life.
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TinaW
3.0 out of 5 stars A pair of lonely people find each other
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2012
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This wasn't a bad book by any means but it felt very heavy. For a romance it seemed curiously lacking in real joy until the very end.

The tone of the book is set somewhat by Catherine. She lives a half-life, sad about her inability to have children and abandoned by her husband because of it.

And then there is Joe and his youngest daughter Fitz. Joe's wife was killed in a car accident and his youngest daughter, seven-year-old Fitz is having emotional issues because of it.

Joe, Fitz and Catherine's lives intersect over a mother/child figurine that Catherine purchases on impulse. The figurine was actually owned by Joe but he sold it because he was short on cash. But Fitz was very attached to the figurine and wants it back.

I get the feeling that I was supposed to be happy that this lonely woman and this damaged man and child found each other. But I just found them to be somewhat enervating. They didn't lift me at all, on the contrary I found them somewhat wearing. Joe and Catherine, after a few head-butting moments, figure out that they really like each other and then they become lovers. The problem with the story is that there was no real conflict for them.

So we are left with filler and secondary characters that shift focus from the decidedly subdued romance. First there is Catherine's job. She works as a counselor? Den Mother? Life Coach? To a group of pre-teen pregnant girls who are given a sort of area-51 zone in their school where only Catherine and one other teacher work with them. These girls are young, yet hardened by life and their circumstances. Oh, btw, the other teacher has Cancer and her husband left her because of it (see....heavy).

Second is Joe's family. He has a predatory sister-in-law. A Clueless brother. And his oldest teenaged daughter, Delia, who acts as the primary obstacle in keeping Joe and Catherine apart. Normally I would find Delia's actions compelling, because children objecting to a new boyfriend/girlfriend can act as a definite obstacle. But the inclusion of the Brother & sister-in-law took the plot-line from potentially interesting to downright ludicrous.

But Joe and Catherine (and Fitz) get their HEA in the end. But even so, all I could think about was that this book went beyond angsty and straight into depressing
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JIA Hale
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for ah! moments
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2019
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Loved this novel heartwarming and easy to read. The only thing is as per her stories everything goes according to plan no surprises but I still enjoy her novels
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