Secret Baby, Convenient Wife by Kim Lawrence (HP 2724) - my 100 book!

Reviewed by Janet85 on April 30th, 2008, 3:50pm

by Kim Lawrence

Format: Print Books

Series: Harlequin Presents

This book made me go "aww".  The hero's a filthy rich businessman with a 13 year old son.  The heroine's a 26 year old virgin nurse that can't have kids.  They meet because his son is injured in a terrorist act and hospitalized.  The attraction flares between the H/h after the dust settles with the son, and when he realizes she's a virgin and doesn't want to continue on in the indignant role of "rich man's mistress", he won't let her go.  He's possessive and he wants her.  He proposes marriage, offering her a long-term committment, but saying straight from the beginning that love isn't part of their marriage.  The heroine loves him though, but can't tell him.  Then they argue over babies: she finds out about a fertility treatment that could make babies possible for her, but he doesn't want more kids, making her choose babies or him.  Seems like the choice may be taken away from her though, given the title! 

I thought this was a great premise for a book, there were no ick factors, the characters were charming and in love even if the words weren't said at first.  The only negative thing about this book is that the chronology was odd: a lot of important events were told in flashbacks, which made sense but the story could just as easily have been told going from A to B to C to D rather than C - A - B - D. 

Rating: 4/5 stars, a really enjoyable read, with a great loving passionate relationship between the hero/heroine. 

Note: this is my 100th book for this challenge  *grin*