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The Birth Mother
Mills & Boon Blush series brings you moving, true-to-life romancesFAMILY MAN
A story written for the heart and from the heart by the bestselling author of Jacob's Girls.
Bryan's niece. Jennifer's daughter. He knows it. She doesn't.
Dashing ladies' man, brilliant entrepreneur and bachelor uncle, Bryan Chambers is now a bachelor father. That's because suddenly tragically he's the only remaining family his eleven-year-old niece, Nicki, has. And obviously he's not doing a good enough job of surrogate fathering, as Nicki simply isn't getting over her parents' deaths. There's only one thing that interests Nicki these days and that's finding the woman who gave her away eleven years before. Her birth mother.
Desperate to help his niece, Bryan tracks down Jennifer Teal, Nicki's birth mother. She's twenty-seven beautiful, successful and unmarried. But there's a hitch or two.
The first hitch? She doesn't seem to like kids. The second? Bryan's falling in love with her.
FAMILY MAN
A story written for the heart and from the heart by the bestselling author of Jacob's Girls.
Bryan's niece. Jennifer's daughter. He knows it. She doesn't.
Dashing ladies' man, brilliant entrepreneur and bachelor uncle, Bryan Chambers is now a bachelor father. That's because suddenly tragically he's the only remaining family his eleven-year-old niece, Nicki, has. And obviously he's not doing a good enough job of surrogate fathering, as Nicki simply isn't getting over her parents' deaths. There's only one thing that interests Nicki these days and that's finding the woman who gave her away eleven years before. Her birth mother.
Desperate to help his niece, Bryan tracks down Jennifer Teal, Nicki's birth mother. She's twenty-seven beautiful, successful and unmarried. But there's a hitch or two.
The first hitch? She doesn't seem to like kids. The second? Bryan's falling in love with her.
FAMILY MAN
- GenresRomance
296 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1996
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39 people want to read
About the author
Tara Taylor Quinn
374 books1,459 followersTara Taylor Quinn began her love affair with Harlequin when she was fourteen years old and picked up a free promotional copy of a Harlequin Romance in a hometown grocery store. The relationship was solidified the year she was suspended from her high school typing class for hiding a Harlequin Romance behind the keys of her electric typewriter. Unaware that her instructor loomed close by, Ms. Quinn read blissfully on with one finger resting on the automatic repeating period key. She finished the book in the principal’s office. Forced to leave her romances in her locker after that, Ms. Quinn’s typing skills improved - a fact for which she is eternally grateful.
With over 80 original novels, published in more than twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestselling author with more than seven million copies sold. She is a winner of the 2008 National Reader's Choice Award, four time finalist for the RWA Rita Award, a finalist for the Reviewer’s Choice Award, the Bookseller’s Best Award, the Holt Medallion and appears regularly on the Waldenbooks bestsellers list. Ms. Quinn writes for Harlequin and MIRA Books. Reviewer, Cindy Penn, wordweaving.com says, “Amazing character development is the hallmark of author Tara Taylor Quinn’s work. Indeed, Taylor’s profound observations of human nature and intimate understanding of values and priorities lends extraordinary psychological depth to all her work.”
Tara Taylor Quinn was born and raised in Ohio. Though she wrote her first story at the age of seven, her professional writing career began ten years later when she was hired as a stringer with the Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Ohio. She attended Wright State University and graduated from Harding College in Arkansas with a degree in English and Journalism. She published several magazine articles before turning to writing as a full-time occupation.
Ms. Quinn is a Past President of the Romance Writers of America and served for eight years on the Board of Directors of that association. She has a wide range of experience as a public speaker and workshop presenter for writers groups around the country.
When she’s not home with her owners, Jerry Lee and Taylor Marie, or fulfilling speaking engagements, Tara loves to travel with her husband, stopping wherever the spirit takes them. They’ve been spotted in casinos and quaint little small town antique shops all across the country..
With over 80 original novels, published in more than twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestselling author with more than seven million copies sold. She is a winner of the 2008 National Reader's Choice Award, four time finalist for the RWA Rita Award, a finalist for the Reviewer’s Choice Award, the Bookseller’s Best Award, the Holt Medallion and appears regularly on the Waldenbooks bestsellers list. Ms. Quinn writes for Harlequin and MIRA Books. Reviewer, Cindy Penn, wordweaving.com says, “Amazing character development is the hallmark of author Tara Taylor Quinn’s work. Indeed, Taylor’s profound observations of human nature and intimate understanding of values and priorities lends extraordinary psychological depth to all her work.”
Tara Taylor Quinn was born and raised in Ohio. Though she wrote her first story at the age of seven, her professional writing career began ten years later when she was hired as a stringer with the Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Ohio. She attended Wright State University and graduated from Harding College in Arkansas with a degree in English and Journalism. She published several magazine articles before turning to writing as a full-time occupation.
Ms. Quinn is a Past President of the Romance Writers of America and served for eight years on the Board of Directors of that association. She has a wide range of experience as a public speaker and workshop presenter for writers groups around the country.
When she’s not home with her owners, Jerry Lee and Taylor Marie, or fulfilling speaking engagements, Tara loves to travel with her husband, stopping wherever the spirit takes them. They’ve been spotted in casinos and quaint little small town antique shops all across the country..
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August 28, 2011
I usually don't read romances. This was pretty clean, as romances go. I prolly skipped a chapter all told by the time I skipped the sex scenes. I thought the plot worked, though it was a bit far-fetched. So, yes, I give this a solid 3.
I found a cardboard box with a water-soaked, warped lid, full of books in a shed in the backyard. One of those nice white legal boxes you can fold flat. The first layer of books were also water soaked. I pulled the box out & set it on the trampoline, stacking the books on the tramp & looking at them. I didn't get very far before I had snagged to a stop on this one. I loaded the box up into the little red Radio Flyer wagon & pulled it up to the house.
I found a cardboard box with a water-soaked, warped lid, full of books in a shed in the backyard. One of those nice white legal boxes you can fold flat. The first layer of books were also water soaked. I pulled the box out & set it on the trampoline, stacking the books on the tramp & looking at them. I didn't get very far before I had snagged to a stop on this one. I loaded the box up into the little red Radio Flyer wagon & pulled it up to the house.
January 26, 2014
The Birth Mother is a book by American author, Tara Taylor Quinn in the Family Man series. When publicity man Bryan Chambers loses his family in a tornado, he becomes an instant father to his eleven-year-old adopted niece, Nicki. And when, close to her twelfth birthday, Nicki begs him to find her birth mother, he can’t refuse. But when he tracks down Jennifer Teal, she seems not to be interested in children. Bryan isn’t going to let Jennifer break Nicki’s heart with a rejection, so he needs to get to know her a little better, and soon finds himself falling in love. Quinn’s characters have depth and appeal; her plot is a classic with a twist; there is plenty of emotion, and, of course, a happy ending. A moving romance read.
January 1, 2013
This novel was super emotional. I had mixed emotions just reading it. Overall it wasn't a bad novel, in fact it was pretty good. I was seriously pissed at the hero for most of the novel though.
February 9, 2020
3.5 stars
November 28, 2010
Read this years ago.
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