Review: LOVED it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
The Wedding Secret is the third book in the Forever Love Story series by Jeannie Moon. I did not know it was the third in a series until I had finished the book. It worked well as a stand alone. I never felt like I had missed anything, though reading the first two might have enriched the story. I intend to go back and read them, for sure.Harper Poole has an MBA from Harvard and is a high-powered assistant who runs the day to day operations for Jason Campbell's multi-billion dollar software company. Kevin Rossi is a superstar major league catcher who had a brief affair with Harper at his sister's wedding (they took an interesting tour of the wine cellar. They dated briefly, but didn't tell anyone, and Harper broke up with Kevin when she realized that he had no intentions of sticking around or being in a serious relationship. She decides to cut her losses and move on. She finds out that she is pregnant on the day that Kevin accepts a baseball contract that takes him from New York to California. Harper decides not to tell him because she doesn't want him to feel trapped.Fast forward a year and we have Kevin back in New York, and Harper with a precious 3-month-old daughter, Anna. After running into Kevin a couple of times and realizing it would continue to happen, Harper decides she has to tell him about the baby.OK, I have to say that Kevin is a "dumb jock" - as described in the book. At times I just wanted to reach into those pages and smack him just like his mother and sister's liked to do. It was a good thing they were there to keep him lined out and focused on the big picture. He would go off the rails at the most inopportune times - selfishly worrying about his own issues when it seemed that Harper and Anna needed him most.I do not intend to spoil the story, so suffice it to say that there was enough angst and family drama to keep the pages turning at a fast pace. I really enjoyed it, and found it hard to put down. I think you will, too.*ARC provided by NetGalley and InterMix/Penguin.