Bringing Up Babies

Latimore Saga #5

by Emma Goldrick

After the latest in a long line of romantic disasters, Hope Latimore had decided there was only one thing for it-she would have to enter a convent! That or take the job her father had arranged for her as a stand-in nanny. Only Bruce Latimore had neglected to mention that her new boss was Ralph Browne- the man who had made her high school days hell! Hope, the ""baby"" of the Latimore family, was beginning to think that perhaps the nuns would have been a better idea! But she couldn't leave Eddie and little Melody with a bachelor dad to contend with. Sexy, Ralph might be, but it was clear that this hero knew less than Hope about bringing up kids!

Genres: Romance, M F Romance, Fiction, Harlequin

287 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1996

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

[Elena · Rating 3 out of 5]

I haven't read a Harlequin Romance in the last.... 20 years? Maybe more?
And I simply forgot how "American" they are (and I mean no offence here!) :)

I don't want to say that the heroine, Hope was TSTL but she was definitely a naive, immature, doormat-ish young woman. And Ralph, the hero, was kind of "absent" for the most part and I found him a 'meh' MC.

It would've been a 2-star read but the kids, Eddie and Melody, and their shenanigans were very cute and so I upped the rating ;)