I'm a huge fan of Brenda Joyce...I've really liked most of her books and the rest of the "Bragg Saga", but Innocent wasn't as great as I was expecting it to be considering the others in the series were good. I really like the "older" Miranda (the grown up mom you meet in the others)...but the young Miranda just absolutly grated...and I mean grated on my nerves.I still can't believe Joyce repeated the same scenes over and over and over again. Maybe this was one of her first books (I'll give her that), but letting Miranda get kidnapped as much as she did just got totally boring.I will say that I'm so very glad I did read this one. It was nice to see how the Bragg's and their close family came to be.***This book includes near rape and rape scenes. If you normally shy away from books with this kind of content you may not want to read it