Terry McLaughlin

Back Cover Blurb: Charlie Keene has poured everything she's got into running her father's concrete company, and now her brother wants to sell. Worse, handsome acquisitions specialist Jack Maguire's arrived in town…and he wants to buy. Charlie's worked too hard to let the family firm go.

I must confess I didn't read all of this book: it got too bogged down in the business "stuff" the  heroine was going through. I frankly don't understand takeovers, buy-outs, etc. so I had no desire to read more of the same. I did like the fact that an older gal (the heroine's mother) found love and happiness...

It could be a screenplay—
except this is no movie.

My Thoughts: I really enjoyed this book. Not as much as book 3 but a close second. This is Maggie and Wayne's story.

My Thoughts: Since I read Maybe, Baby first (book 3)--and really enjoyed it--I decided to hunt down the first 2 books. This one is Ellie and Fitz's story and probably my least favorite of the series but it was still a good read.

 A Perfect Stranger by TERRY MCLAUGHLIN, Superromance, #1467, January 2008

Sydney Gordon's boyfriend just proposed to her, so why can't she say yes. He's everything a girl could want. Stable, caring, dependable. Just what she needed to curb her impulsive streak. When she goes to Europe to be a chaperone she still hasn't given an answer. How could her answer still be yes if she is drawn to charismatic Nick Martelli?

 Maybe, BABY by Terry Mclaughlin, Superromance, #1438, August 2007 (series: book 3- Bright Lights, Big City)

Film producer Burke Elliott needs Nora Daniels's signature on a film contract and needs her to return to Hollywood. So he lets his friend convince him to travel to harsh winter ridden Montana to try and coax a signature out of Nora. Nora needs this time to heal after her divorce and the birth of her daughter. Does she really want her daughter growing up in the bright lights of Hollywood? While Burke is in Montana certain circumstances come up and he ends up staying with Nora, but this bachelor doesn't do babies.

Review: I really enjoyed this book. The characters are so enjoyable. Burke, the H, is British and I can just hear the accent when he speaks. And I find his reactions to being out of his element so endearing. I also like how we gradually see him become less stuffy. And Nora, the h, is believable as a first time mother. Any of us that have been there can easily relate.

 It could be a screenplay-except this is no movie. Film producer Burke Elliot really is snowbound in a remote Montana cabin with his glamorous star. He's here on a mission-to convince Nora Daniels to sign a contract and return with him to Hollywood-and nothing is going to stop him. Not her meddling friends, not the manure-filled snowdrifts, not the lousy cell-phone service.