The Daddy Trap

by Leigh Michaels

Lindsay wanted a baby, Gibb didn’t – and their conflicting stands broke up their fledgling marriage. When Gibb comes back to town as a consultant at the family business, their attraction is just as strong. But Gibb still doesn’t want a child – and Lindsay now has an eight-year-old son.

Genres: Harlequin Romance, Contemporary Romance, Ebooks

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger (b. July 27 in Iowa, United States), a popular United States writer of over 85 romance novels. She has published with Harlequin, Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Writers Digest Books, and Arcadia Publishing. She teaches romance writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop (www.writingclasses.com) She is the author of On Writing Romance.

When Leigh was fifteen she wrote her first romance novel and burned it. She burned five more complete manuscripts before submitting to a publisher. The first submission was accepted by Harlequin, the only publisher to look at it, and was published in 1984.

Michaels was born in Iowa, United States. She received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, after three years of study and maintained a 3.93 grade-point average. She received the Robert Bliss Award as top-ranking senior in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and won a national William Randolph Hearst Award for feature-writing as an undergraduate.

She is married to Michael W. Lemberger, an artist-photographer.

Reviews

[Debbie DiFiore · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really didn't like the so called hero. He walked away ten years ago and they got divorced. He didn't want any kids and she did. When he walked away she was pregnant but he didn't know. Now he is in town to audit the warehouse her dad owns and is failing. He sees the kid and interacts with him but when he finds out he's the Dad he walks away again, says he doesn't want anything to do with him and totally destroys the little boy. That scene was heartbreaking the little boy was really cute but he did cause chaos with his hijinx. Actually they were more than hijinx, one at least was pretty awful. I finished it but I definitely didn't like it. Very clean romance and I think neither were celibate while apart but it never ever clarified it.b

[Nightwitch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ugh. No. Just no. Our hero and heroine were married, but split. He returns to the town where she lives - financially supported by her father’s manufacturing plant - with her young son (not his) as a consultant to try and save the plant. Turns out, the kid is his. Turns out, she stopped birth control on purpose. Turns out, the real reason he didn’t want kids is because his own father was abusive - now that he’s articulated that, everything’s cool and he can settle into small-town parenthood like everyone wants! I mean, I guess, on the plus side it's not just women Michaels thinks need to give up fancy big city work life to settle down and parent?

[Lesley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A second chance romance. Divorce was the end of their tempestuous marriage, with Lindsay sounding like she was a spoilt child and Gibb being closed in and rigid. Nine years apart and motherhood has changed Lindsay for the better, she is now more mature and runs her own business. She is horrified to find that Gibb is back in town and even more so when her son takes a shine to him, knowing that he will ultimately be hurt as Gibb still doesn’t want a child in his life.

[Lu Bielefeld · Rating 3 out of 5]

boa história

[PAINTED BOX]

ALL SHE WANTED WAS A BABY...

Nine years ago, Lindsay and Gibb had the perfect marriage. Except for one thing: in Lindsay's mind, only children could make a marriage complete. She loved Gibb and longed to have his baby. But Gibb was wary of being trapped by fatherhood, and their marriage had fallen apart.

Now Lindsay and Gibb both have successful careers -- and separate lives. That is, until fate brings them together again. Suddenly Gibb suspects Lindsay has been keeping a secret from him. Isn't it curious that her eight-year-old son is the spitting image of Gibb? It seems he's fallen into the Daddy Trap without even knowing it!