FBI Agent Con Randolph's six month old son has been abandoned. The state has arranged an adoption - they just need Con's signature. Con knows they've made a mistake. He's never fathered a baby. But it turns out e's wrong.
Horrified and guilty, he tries to claim his son. Yet, as far as the state is concerned, Con, doesn't have much to offer a child. He has a risk-filled job; even his marital status is against him. Con doesn't know a simgle woman that would marry him - or whom he wants to marry. But he does have a best friend - Robyn Blair - who could benefit from a temporary marriage of convenience.
Robyn has been in love with Con for years but he sees her only as a friend. In order to satisfy her craving to be a mother and to love Con's child, she suggests a marriage of convenience to Con who refuses to do any such thing. After some thinking he agrees. Will Con ever get custody of his son? Why wasn't he told of the child before now? Will he ever get the answers to all the questions in his mind? Will Con ever love Robyn or ever be more than a friend? Read the book to discover these answers.
This book didn't click with me as romance books usually do. I don't know why as friendships that lead to love is my favourite type of books (as you may have guessed by the type of books I have reviewed). Con is a hero who doesn't show his feelings and is scared of emotions to the degree where he runs away from them. He has had a hard childhood which has been a factor in his personality traits. I hated the way Con treated Robyn, especially after the first time they were intimate. He treated her like dirt. I kept on wondering why she put up with it and always the answer was evident which was because of the baby as she loved him like he was her own.
Con never shared important things with her which she should have been aware of but when she discovered them she was knocked for six. It just made her realise that their relationship wasn't working. She gave and gave and he kept taking whatever she offered. The only thing they shared was their love of smoking. Even his feelings for the boy were lukewarm until right at the end where when they were in danger of losing him, he realised that he loved the boy. Throughout the book, he kept saying that he cared for his son and wife but the dreaded L word was never mentioned until the last couple of pages.
This book will be going in the 'to bin' pile straight away. No comebaacks for this one.
