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Secret Baby, Surprise Parents
by Liz Fielding
Dynamic intensely emotional romance
Grace McAllister
cares deeply for others, so much so that she would do anything to ease
her sister's Phoebe's pain, even become a surrogate mother.
Grace's bold decision puts her at odds with the one man she has ever
loved, Josh Kingsley. Successful and popular with the ladies,
Josh seems headed on the fast track, a track that leads him farther and
farther from home. When tragedy strikes, can Grace rely on Josh
to help her? Together can the two of them do what is best for the
little baby Posie? In the midst of their grief, can Grace and
Josh find a way to share the secrets that they have kept from one
another? Can the little baby Posie open their hearts to
love?
Liz Fielding's SECRET BABY, SURPRISE
PARENTS, is a beautiful romance of
love and joy emerging from loss. As the legal implications
of surrogacy and parenthood complicate the legal status of Posie, Liz
Fielding does an excellent job at showing the emotional depth of
Grace's tie to Posie. As the secrets unravel, Liz Fielding
creates a emotional landscape that keeps the reader glued to the
pages. One feels the emotional loss in the very language of the
romance, a language that mesmerizes the reader with its depth as these
two wounded souls work their way out of the past and the secrets that
have kept them apart. From the depth of their loss, Grace and
Josh risk honesty in a way they never have. As they open up
to themselves and each other, they find themselves more able to see one
another as they are rather than through the image they have built up of
one another. From loss, Josh and Grace learn to reach out,
creating a new emotional space in which love transforms
them. Liz Fielding paints a magnificent portrait of a woman
who moves from passivity and dependence upon others to a woman who
recaptures her spark for life and an independence that allows her to
love like never before with a joyous confidence in herself.
SECRET BABY,
SURPRISE PARENTS is a highly
emotional romance. Open the cover and be prepared to be glued to
the pages from the first tense dynamic moments to the last twists in
the epilogue. What an epilogue! Whereas an epilogue in the
hands of less experienced authors often fades the story into a
lackluster expected resolution, Liz Fielding uses the form of the
epilogue to deliver the final wonderful dynamic images of the courage
of love. Liz Fielding's epilogue does more than just completes or
resolves ---- it transforms all
that led up to it, leading the romance to a new height. I love a
dynamic
ending with a few twists, not just plot twists but something that
transforms! Awesome!
In the context of the body of Liz Fielding's
romances, SECRET
BABY, SURPRISE PARENTS stands out as
one of her most emotional romances --- and one of her best! If
you love an emotional romance, reserve a block of time just to enjoy
this romance uninterrupted. SECRET BABY, SURPRISE
PARENTS is a romance
you won't want to put down until the last page.
Publisher: Harlequin
Romance (April 2009)
Baby On Board
Author website
Reviewed by Merrimon,
Merrimon Book Reviews
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