Edit 8/27/14: For whatever reason I decided to re-read this book. Maybe it was to clear my head of everything else I've been reading by reading something familiar. I don't know, but I still enjoyed the read. It's been a few years since I've originally read Birthright and I've changed in those years which makes reading a story like this give me different perspective. It's good books that are able to do that. 
 Original Review 2011: 
 This is another good read for me from Nora Roberts. Her books are like comfort food. There's nothing too serious and I can always count on the HEA at the end. True, Nora Roberts does follow a pattern with a lot of her books, but at this point, since I haven't read a lot, I find it more comforting than annoying. Some times I just like that I know what to expect and I can count on that. 
 Callie, I found to be a pretty good heroine. She's independent, strong-willed, intelligent and stubborn, and she likes to rely soley upon herself and she does it rather well. I liked kind of seeing her realize that while it's very admirable to be so self-sufficient to know that you have people who care about you and are there for you to help you sometimes is nice. She doesn't completely give up who she is, but she begins to see that it's ok to lean on people and ask for help when you need it. 
 Jake was a great match to Callie. I liked the whole exes finding their way back to each other storyline. I liked seeing them give it another chance and working on what went wrong the first time around. 
 Roberts does a good job with the secondary characters as well, making their stories that much more heartbreaking and sweet at the same time. 
 I appreciated the underlining theme of family and past running throughout this book. It seemed that by the end everything kind of ties together. Finding out about the past through the dig site, but paralleling that with Callie finding out about her own past was done very well. I'm impressed with Roberts' knack for keeping the theme throughout all the stories of hers that I've read so far. 
 I do look forward to reading more by Norea Roberts. Now the only problem I will have is figuring out which one to read next! There's so many! Until Then!