Unwanted Approach

by Annichelle Poe

Unwanted Approach

When a moment of silence threatens to destroy everything, can their fire burn hot enough to forge them back together?

Leif and Jaylene McClean have been married for two years, and for most of that time, they've been trying—and failing—to have a baby. The strain is showing, old traumas surfacing in ways neither of them can control.

Then, at a dinner that should have been ordinary, Leif's friend drops a his sister has offered to be their surrogate. She runs. He chases. But he's too late.

Leif McClean doesn't just want his wife back. He wants to claim every inch of her, body and soul, and prove that she's the only woman he's ever wanted. And he's not above using every possessive, dirty trick in his arsenal to make her remember exactly who she belongs to.

A scorching hot, emotionally intense second-chance romance with a possessive alpha hero, explicit sexual content, and a guaranteed HEA.

Genres: Second Chance

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 13, 2026

Reviews

[Kiley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Unwanted Approach was about Leif and Jaylene "Jay" McClean. Their ages and careers were never given.

Before you go any further, I would like to apologize to anyone who reads this review. Not because I am ashamed of what I wrote, because I'm not. I am ashamed that I read it and then had to write an honest, yet brutal review in hopes of sparing anyone from reading this before the author has a chance to improve it. There is NO cheating, NO betrayal, NO other woman/man involved, NO gaslighting, and NO true reason for the separation. Nothing about this book made sense. So, if you choose to read the review...or the book...Reader Beware.

Leif and Jaylene had been together for three years, married for two, and for most of that time, they had been trying, unsuccessfully, to have a baby. One night when they were enjoying dinner with friends, one of Leif's friends (someone Jaylene tolerates because her husband works with him) mentioned that his sister had offered to be their surrogate. The thing that made it worse was that Lucas said his sister wanted to "do it the old-fashioned way" (by having sex with Leif to get pregnant) because that made it "more natural". The fact that the BROTHER of the surrogate-wannabe made the offer put an ICK factor into the story that this reader never quite recovered from. Regardless, that's NOT how surrogacy works. So why the author thought that was a good thing to include in the book was a bit shocking. When Leif took too long to respond and shut the idea down, Jaylene believed he was actually considering the idea and left the restaurant in her BFF's car. A week later, Jaylene rented her own place without once talking to Leif since the night of the failed dinner.

In the chapter marked "Day Ten", the FMC stated that it had been six months since she had started going to therapy to deal with not only her insecurity, but her possible infertility issues as well. Because of the way the story was written, it made the passage of time seem as though a full six months had passed from the night everything had fallen apart. While the chapter headings made the timeline confusing, the separation lasted just under a month. It was her therapist who made her understand that perhaps what she had seen as Leif considering sleeping with another woman was his typical trauma reaction to intense emotions and situations. As previously stated, because of the way the chapters were titled, it read as if the story took place over a period of several months. I'm not certain why the author switched the titles back and forth between numerical and days, but that made the entire thing confusing. The book had been written from the POV of both main characters. However, from Day 3 until Day 19, it was only from the POV of the FMC. Day 28 began the switch back to the two POVs. Due to the way the story was written from Day 1 to Day 19, the reader was never certain what the passage of time truly was. The clarification didn't come until Day 28. The storyline never regained its equilibrium because of this. WTF?!

I am not going to describe this any further because the entire thing was messed up, and I couldn't tell you if I'm coming or going after finishing it. There was nothing about this book that was appealing. While it had too much angst, a touch of emotional rollercoaster, and way more drama than it needed, the rest of the book was nothing more than a verbal catastrophe. It had my head in a tailspin from start to finish, and the "BDSM wannabe" portion didn't help it any at all. That just didn't fit the writing style and confused it all the more. Suffice to say, if I could give it a zero-star rating, I would. It was awful.

[Wesley Best · Rating 1 out of 5]

Really frustrating with no real resolution

A friend makes a really dumb suggestion, husband freezes because its so ridiculously insulting, wife runs away because he froze instead of immediately telling the friend off. She leaves him for a month with no communication, finds out shes pregnant, even rents an apartment. He finally finds her and has to grovel, even though she was at fault not him. She forgives him (never even trys to take accountability) and goes home with him. It was absolutely awful. Don't waste your time.

[Diane · Rating 2 out of 5]

Couldn't finish

This book's entire premise is based on an immature anxiety ridden female who leaves her husband because a friend suggests something and her husband freezes. She knows he had a bad childhood with results in going blank if overwhelmed but she won't even talk to him about what happened knowing his issue.

I got about halfway through and she irritated me so much I couldn't finish.

[Nm · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF

I liked her other books but damn, this was too unrealistic for me. I stopped at 39%.