Note:

In the interest of being better able to keep this list up to date, I'm no longer going to be posting my own synopsis/comments about the books I've been reading. Instead, I'm just going to post the blurb from the cover. To be honest, it takes a lot for me to not like a book, so you can pretty well bet that only the keepers make it to my booklist.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

9. A Natural Father

by Sarah Mayberry

Lucy Basso is pregnant, single, and trying to expand her produce delivery business. As if that weren't complicated enough, she's attracted to the son of her produce supplier. So naturally, while trying to fight her attraction to him, she ends up with him as her business partner. She keeps him at arms length until he finally convinces her that he's not going to abandon her. They have one steamy night together and then he appears to do just that.

The characters were really interesting. Both Lucy and Dom have abandonment issues - hers because of her father who desserted his family when she was young, and his because of a wife who left him. They seem to work on these issues together until Dom suddenly decides he can't give Lucy what she deserves - without consulting her first.

They spend a miserable few weeks apart, but he's there when Lucy goes into labour, just when she needs him most.

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