The Baby Caper

by Emma Goldrick

It was the formula for disaster - novelist Jeb Lacey was left holding a baby! Meg Hubbard on the other hand, seemed heaven-sent; she was, after all, a woman and bound to be naturally gifted with children.

Genres: Harlequin Romance, Romance, Harlequin

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Emma Goldrick is the penname used by the marriage formed by Emma Elizabeth Jean Sutcliffe, borned 7 February 1923 in Puerto Rico, and Robert N. Goldrick, borned on 22 March 1919 in Massachusetts, USA. They met in Puerto Rico, where married. She was a licensed practical nurse, volunteered with American Red Cross and she taught American Sign Language and he was a career USA military man. Thirty years and 4 children later they retired, and in 1980 they started to write in collaboration, and their first novel was accepted and published in 1983 by Mills & Boon. They continued publishing 40 novels until Robert passed away at 76, in 22 January 1996. After her husband death, she published her last novel and retired. Emma Goldrick passed away at 85, in 20 November 2008.

Reviews

[LLC · Rating 4 out of 5]

Typical Emma Goldrick silliness...but irresistible. Not to be taken seriously as a romance just a silly, light, fun read.

[Sruthi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not what I expected it to be, It is just a silly and laugh out loud story about two half mads who are left alone with a baby, a kidnapped one at that.

[*CJ* · Rating 2 out of 5]

"The Baby Caper" is the story of Meg and Jeb, and is a hella weird and confusing read.
So.
-Jeb is a writer
-Meg is sent to interview Jeb
-Jeb's sister dumps "her baby" on him
-Jeb doesnt know nothing about babies
-Jeb dumps the baby on Meg
-Meg is forced to take care of a strangers baby
-The baby is actually kidnapped..
And so begins a comedy of errors which was so tangled up I ended up getting lost and skimming through most of the pages.
Honestly the rating is for the parts I remembered/understood as every page was a new revelation/drama.
Safe
2/5

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mad-cap adventure.

At first glance, the hero appeared more scatterbrained than the heroine with his harum-scarum way of solving problems. But in the end, despite his haphazard manner he finally got his household organized the way he wanted it. I thought it was funny how he would get the inspiration for his creative work from the most unlikely places.

As for the heroine, I liked her for falling in love with a most unlikely hero. He was definitely not handsome. His slipshod lifestyle, not to mention his burdensome female relatives, would drive most sane women batty. But she looked past the clutter to see the innate “good boy” in him.

The fiasco with the Mafia don was OTT; just use it to tie in the H/h uncontested adoption for the baby.

Trivia: The hero here is issued from the same Ralph Wormeley family tree as the hero in Thunder Over Eden.

[EeeJay]

I'm still confused as to how EG manages to make her heroines LIVE with the H within the first couple of pages of the story when they don't know the guy from Adam. Also. Kisses from strangers? Creepy!

Sorta funny book, lots to quote from it even though I skim read it

[Tia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This novel just seemed so weird to me. I couldn't take it seriously and I ended up laughing down my house while reading it. Emma Goldrick books are always hit or miss, mostly miss but some are alright.

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked it very much! A light-hearted romance with lots of LOL moments.