Review: Good contemporary romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2013
This is the first time I have read a book by this author and I enjoyed it. The story was well written, the characters are interesting and the plot is character driven, no outside bad guys or mysteries. There was quite a bit of growth in the characters and I felt that they were well developed.Wendy assumed the care and guardianship of her roommate and friend's baby when the friend was killed in a car accident. She is the only mother that Aurora has known since she was 6 weeks old and Wendy takes seriously her deathbed promise to keep the baby away from her late roommate's parents. She loves Rory as if she were her own baby and very few people don't realize that she's not the birth mother. Unfortunately, Wendy just got pink slipped, along with everyone else she works with, and wonders if the roommate's family might be able to help her out. When she called the family business, though, the man she spoke with was really rude and high handed, and Wendy decided that being poor was better than help from those people.The next thing she knows, her old roommate's brother, Mack, is on her doorstep requesting to meet his niece. He accuses her of stealing the baby from his family, and they generally get off on the wrong foot. He does, however, invite her to come with them to meet his family in Chicago and introduce Rory. While in Chicago, he springs on her the best solution to the problem is for her and Mack to get married and raise Rory. His family is delighted, seeing the close mother/daughter relationship between Wendy and Rory, Wendy currently has no job to return to and no family.  Mack is happy to raise Rory as his own with her. What problems could there possibly be? Did I mention  that the family is insanely rich also?Wanting to keep her baby, Wendy reluctantly agrees. She and Mack have a lot of time and a lot of work cut out for them if they're going to have a long term real relationship as parents and partners. There are misunderstandings that almost break them up before they even start, but they hang tough and get their HEA.Heat factor mild.