Love

One of things about category romance is that many times the scenarios are based on some assumptions and when acted on, those assumptions never pan out quite the way the characters intended. While this is acceptable, it also requires the author to add a twist or two in order to differentiate the tale from others. Baby Be Mine has many of the standards but doesn’t have much of the unique, making this merely an acceptable story. Maggie Barnes is a street cop and has pretty much given up hope of being a wife and mother, until she finds an abandoned newborn by her patrol car. Her friend Nina, who works at Social Services, helps her get approval to be the child’s foster mother and Maggie is hooked. She is dearly hoping that Grace’s mother never returns and she can ultimately adopt her. But there is a snag. Nina tells her that she needs to be married if she really wants a chance at permanent foster parenting or adoption. Tucker Jones is Maggie’s friend. They have been friends for years and while they have both contemplated taking things farther, neither wants to mess up their friendship. So Maggie approaches Tucker and asks him to marry her in name only and stay married until the adoption, and then they can get divorced. The best laid plans… Predictably they find that there is a strong

by Eve Gaddy