Both Callie and Holly end up being sick at some point during the books, which I think is meant to illustrate how much the Colter men (and Callie’s husband – we’ll call him an honorary Colter) cherish their women. That’s really all of the storylines in the book. She and Max retrieve Lauren and begin the slow process of helping her recovery her sense of self-worth. Callie is determined that Lauren should come to stay with her and Max until Lauren is feeling stronger and more confident. Her husband, Max, has gone to take care of his sister, Lauren, who has been abused by a boyfriend. Meanwhile, Callie, the Colters’ youngest daughter is sick with strep throat. She wrangles Lily into teaching her to cook.

She’s decided to make Christmas dinner, which will be feat considering that Holly is a well known failure at cooking. Holly Colter, the mother of Lily’s husbands is thrilled that all of her kids will be home for Christmas. She is stymied by this news, and is not ready to share her secret with her husbands. She’s shocked by the pregnancy and very worried that something will happen to this baby too. Lily and her husbands, Seth, Michael and Dillon (yes, she’s in a polyamorous relationship with brothers) had been using birth control because Lily was not ready to be pregnant. She was not expecting to become pregnant, and had, in fact lost a daughter earlier in her life to SIDS and later became homeless. The book opens in Clyde, Colorado, as Lily Colter has an unexpected pregnancy confirmed. I think that passionate lovers of the series will be quite satisfied, but I prefer more tension in my romances than this book had.

While I think that the intent to give readers what they want is a great one, I found Colters’ Promise to be similar to reading a multi-chapter epilogue. Kati C Reviews Berkley Books / Series 12 CommentsĪs a lover of intertwined books and series, I appreciate the purpose behind this book: to allow long time readers of the Colters’ Legacy series a chance to revisit past couples.

Colters' Woman by Maya Banks