Michelle:
This is the second in a series of five. These books are independent of each other. The characters don't overlap in the books.
Not as good as the first one, "Suddenly Daddy," but it's still okay...this story dragged for the first 200 pages. It was painful to keep reading, and honestly I skimmed through a lot of the endless paragraphs of repeated information! This worked out okay in Suddenly Daddy. There was enough dialogue to keep me interested. But this book just seemed to be blah...blah...blah...
with that said, the story line was really good. This book was going to only get three stars until the author made me cry in the next to last chapter, and then in the last chapter. The last two chapters were definitely the best in the book...I didn't go for the "love at first sight" bit the author was trying to do. And I expected the matter of his feeling her scars to play a role in this, but he never mentions it. I think it could have been handled really well...
So, it's a good read. Just skip over a lot of the long non-dialogue stuff because it's repeat of earlier info...
And as far as relations with the other books, it looks like these books are independent of each other. No character linckage what-so-ever...