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The Baby Bind
Charlotte Fagan's unsuccessful attempts toget pregnant had strained her marriage to thebreaking point. Then the call came—the Faganswere approved for adoption. Her estrangedhusband, Sean, agreed to pose as the happilymarried father-to-be—provided that once theadoption went through Charlotte grant him adivorce. Now at least one of her dreams wouldcome true—even as another turned to dust.
Sean Fagan still loved Charlotte enough to helpthis last time, but after that they were through—or so he resolved, until their trip to the overseasadoption agency made him rediscover everythingwonderful about this woman. Would a beautifulbaby girl tear Charlotte and Sean apart—or bindthem together like never before?
Sean Fagan still loved Charlotte enough to helpthis last time, but after that they were through—or so he resolved, until their trip to the overseasadoption agency made him rediscover everythingwonderful about this woman. Would a beautifulbaby girl tear Charlotte and Sean apart—or bindthem together like never before?
- GenresRomance
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 2007
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About the author
Nikki Benjamin
54 books8 followersNikki Benjamin was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, but after living in the Houston area for almost 30 years, she considers herself a Texan. She attended Notre Dame High School and graduated from the University of Missouri–Columbia with a degree in secondary education. She worked in the circulation department of the Houston Public Library and as the executive assistant to the president of an international marine engineering company prior to embarking on her writing career.
Always an avid reader, Nikki was encouraged to write by a good friend, a fellow reader and writer. They discussed story ideas and critiqued each other’s manuscripts, and eventually sold their first books a few months apart. During the early years of her writing career, Nikki especially enjoyed being able to work at home while raising her son, now attending college in Montana.
Nikki has also had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Western Europe. She has sailed along the Dalmatian coast on a 42-foot charter boat, and in recent years, she lived for several weeks at a time in such exotic places as Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia. Currently, she enjoys sailing on Galveston Bay, where she crews regularly on a friend’s 42-foot sailboat. She attends the Houston symphony and Stages theatre, likes to pot garden on her patio, and often cooks lavish meals to share with friends. She is still an avid reader, and she continues to enjoy traveling, especially to western Montana, either on her own or with her equally adventurous friends.
Always an avid reader, Nikki was encouraged to write by a good friend, a fellow reader and writer. They discussed story ideas and critiqued each other’s manuscripts, and eventually sold their first books a few months apart. During the early years of her writing career, Nikki especially enjoyed being able to work at home while raising her son, now attending college in Montana.
Nikki has also had the opportunity to travel extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Western Europe. She has sailed along the Dalmatian coast on a 42-foot charter boat, and in recent years, she lived for several weeks at a time in such exotic places as Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia. Currently, she enjoys sailing on Galveston Bay, where she crews regularly on a friend’s 42-foot sailboat. She attends the Houston symphony and Stages theatre, likes to pot garden on her patio, and often cooks lavish meals to share with friends. She is still an avid reader, and she continues to enjoy traveling, especially to western Montana, either on her own or with her equally adventurous friends.
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February 10, 2025
This had a fairly unique premise for a romance novel, an estranged married couple reunite so that she might ultimately be permitted to adopt a child from Kazakhstan, with the caveat that they’ll go their separate ways once the child is in her custody.
Early on, the conflict, Charlotte’s pursuit of becoming a mother versus Sean deciding quite late into that pursuit that fatherhood may not be for him, made for an interesting read, as did the toll trying to have a baby clearly took on this couple, there was a welcome sense of reality to all of that. I had moments of annoyance with both Charlotte and Sean, and that’s okay, I was pleased that the author kept the argument fairly balanced not favoring one character’s side of it over the other, showing that each have their moments of selfishiness and immaturity, and could have handled things differently.
I wish we’d “seen” more of Kazakhstan since that’s such a unique setting, still that was less of an issue here than the conflict between them petering out earlier than I would have preferred as my engagement with their story somewhat waned along with it. Late in the novel, there is an attempt to ramp the conflict back up, however, it was kind of half-hearted and a stretch for where the character appeared to be at emotionally by that point.
I thought their estrangement and the fact that they’re pretending to be together in order for her to adopt would play a larger role here, but there was little to no emphasis on them faking a relationship, which I guess ties in to the conflict going away perhaps sooner than it should have.
This last paragraph, I’ve tried to be vague, but it’s potentially spoilery so if you don’t want to risk it, skip it. There’s a development late in the novel, which to me, was unnecessary (and unlikely given everything). I get that there are those who in fiction and real life might consider happily ever after incomplete without that happening, but I’m not one of them, as far as I’m concerned there’s all sorts of ways to live happily ever after and I’m always hoping stories will become more reflective of that.
Early on, the conflict, Charlotte’s pursuit of becoming a mother versus Sean deciding quite late into that pursuit that fatherhood may not be for him, made for an interesting read, as did the toll trying to have a baby clearly took on this couple, there was a welcome sense of reality to all of that. I had moments of annoyance with both Charlotte and Sean, and that’s okay, I was pleased that the author kept the argument fairly balanced not favoring one character’s side of it over the other, showing that each have their moments of selfishiness and immaturity, and could have handled things differently.
I wish we’d “seen” more of Kazakhstan since that’s such a unique setting, still that was less of an issue here than the conflict between them petering out earlier than I would have preferred as my engagement with their story somewhat waned along with it. Late in the novel, there is an attempt to ramp the conflict back up, however, it was kind of half-hearted and a stretch for where the character appeared to be at emotionally by that point.
I thought their estrangement and the fact that they’re pretending to be together in order for her to adopt would play a larger role here, but there was little to no emphasis on them faking a relationship, which I guess ties in to the conflict going away perhaps sooner than it should have.
This last paragraph, I’ve tried to be vague, but it’s potentially spoilery so if you don’t want to risk it, skip it. There’s a development late in the novel, which to me, was unnecessary (and unlikely given everything). I get that there are those who in fiction and real life might consider happily ever after incomplete without that happening, but I’m not one of them, as far as I’m concerned there’s all sorts of ways to live happily ever after and I’m always hoping stories will become more reflective of that.
September 22, 2010
Having had to deal with ifertility myself this one really touched me and of course I'm a sap for the happy ending. Overall it was pretty good and I could really understand the female leads need to have a child as I have been there, but I think with or without a baby they should have loved each other to be enough when all else fell through.
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