Belonging by Sally Cook (HP 1287)

She's a 19 yr old painter who seeks out her biological mother.  He's a neighbour of her biological mother and is very protective of them.. And suspicious of the heroine, who he catches in small lies about her family background.  They are attracted anyway and she gets him to trust her story. But then things get complicated when he finds out she's most definately lied about who her mother is.  She was pretending to be a distant relative because her actual biological mother doesn't want to confess to her husband that she had a baby and gave it up for adoption in her youth.  She goes away.  He finds out and comes back to claim her. 

It's a good story, a kind of low burning passion, nice characters.  I didn't like that the heroine was 19 and the hero nearly 35.  That's a bit too big an age gap for me!  I like heroine's to be older than 19, this one was barely out of high school. 

Rating: 3.5/5 stars, a decent enjoyable read