A review by katkinney
Falling For A Stranger by Barbara Freethy

4.0

The Callaway Family books are just a fun set of romances with a big Irish family of eight brothers and sisters who are all in firefighting or military service, set in San Francisco. FALLING FOR A STRANGER, the third book in the series, is Drew and Ria’s book. After a one-night stand on an island, Drew tries to follow Ria out to the dock to see her again, only to see the boat she was on explode. Her body is never found and she is presumed dead. Then he believes he sees her years later, but she doesn’t recognize him and goes by a different name. Ria is living with Megan, her sister or niece? One quibble I had with this book versus the previous two in the series is that it hinges on one character keeping a big secret about why Ria is on the run and chapters alternate between Ria and Drew’s perspectives and it takes until 75% of the way through the novel to get any answers at all which is a long time to drag that out without anything progressing in the plot which for me made it a weaker read than the previous two books. 4/5 stars.