Outwardly icy Alex Chandler would do anything to fulfill his late wife's dream of creating a child. But why had she chosen her earthy, annoying, offbeat half sister to be the surrogate mom? True, Dena was devoted to her own twin tykes. Plus, she was warm, womanly and,... hold it! Was Alex actually aching to make a family with Dena?
Dena loved mothering. But make a baby for arctic Alex, then - shudder! - walk away? How could she? Especially when her swelling belly turned Alex's machismo into tenderness,... and made her yearn to be more than merely the surrogate mother of his child?
An American, Sue Swift has visited over a dozen countries and lived in some of them. She has written over a dozen books; some have been translated into over a dozen languages. Not surprisingly she is often confused by her incessant multi-tasking. To make matters more chaotic, she writes erotic romance as Suz deMello and works as a freelance editor.
Dena lost her sister to cancer. Alex is her brother-in-law. Her sister's dying wish was for Dena to carry her embryo to term and give Alex the child and family she could not provide.
I really like this book, it is a book that i can relate to, by losing a spouse to the aweful diease of cancer, but being a surrocate mother would be hard knowing at the end that you would have to give the baby up to the parents, is one thing that i could not do. With this book it had a very happy ending. Sue Swift is a very good writer and i really enjoyed this book, can't wait to read another one of her books.
This was a very low angst book. It was sweet, but the feels were low. I am comparing this to Janice Kay Johnson's "My Sister's Baby". JKJ's book was a much deeper emotional tug on the heartstrings. The ending was rushed and abrupt, as far as their ILYs. There was an epilogue which was sweet.