An Accidental Mom (Accidental Blessings Series #2) (Love Inspired #225) [Mass Market Paperback]

Loree Lough (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2003

Lily London had been crushed when Max Sheridan left town to marry someone else. Years later, her heart leaped when he returned to Amarillo, Texas, to take over his mother’ s diner. Now that she was old enough to do more than dream of becoming Mrs. Max Sheridan, she prayed he would see the woman she’ d become. Because this time, she was really in love… not just with Max but with his motherless four-year-old son, too! Yet despite the intense emotions that still sparked between them, Max refused to believe that a vibrant young woman like Lily was ready to take on the responsibilities of wife… and mother. Together, could they learn to trust in God’ s leadership… and in their love for one another?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Steeple Hill (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373872321
• ISBN-13: 978-0373872329
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,230,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

At last count, popular Inspirational author Loree Lough had 82 award-winning books (more than 3,000,000 copies in circulation), 67 short stories, and 2,500+ articles in print.

The oft-invited guest of writers' organizations, colleges and universities, corporate and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, she loves sharing learned-the-hard-way lessons about the craft and the industry. Loree has traveled coast to coast and border to border, appearing on national, regional, and local TV and radio shows.

Although this once-upon-a-time traveling troubadour refuses to say when, exactly, she traded her Yamaha for a wedding ring, she IS willing to admit that, every now and then, she blows the dust off her six-string to croon a tune or two. But mostly, she just writes (and writes).

Loree and her husband split their time between a home in the Baltimore suburbs and a cabin in the Allegheny Mountains, where she continues to perfect her taleant for identifying critter tracks. Her favorite pass time? Spending long, leisurely hours with her grandchildren... all seven of them!

She loves hearing from her readers, and answers every letter, personally. You can write her @ http://www.loreelough.com, where "If you're patient, you'll hear some hauntingly beautiful music!"

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Great Book, May 3, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: An Accidental Mom (Accidental Blessings Series #2) (Love Inspired #225) (Mass Market Paperback)

Max Sheridan and his son Nate Sheridan moved back to Amarillo, Texas to take care of Max's mom because she broke her leg. Nate's mom died when he was still a baby, so he did not rember her at all. Nate prays for a mom every day. In Amarillo Nate and Max meet up with Lily London. When Nate becomes ill and goes into a coma Lily drives Max and Nate to the hospital. The doctors find a hole in Nate's heart, so they put a metal peice on his heart to cover the hole. Later on in the month the metal peice came lose and Nate went into a coma again. Lily drvies Nate and Max to the hospital, and stays with Max while Nate is in segeroy. Max and Lily fall in love. Will Lily's dream of becoming Lily Sheridan finaly come true?

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars She had a second chance to win his heart, June 21, 2004

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Anza Carrillo "heavenlyanza" (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: An Accidental Mom (Accidental Blessings Series #2) (Love Inspired #225) (Mass Market Paperback)

Lily London had loved Max Sheridan ever since she was a seventh-grader and Max Sheridan was the senior star of the football team. Max had married someone else, though, and had left Amarillo, Texas. Now, several years later, Max has returned to help run his mother's diner while she recuperates from a broken leg, and Lily finds herself still in love with Max, and loving Max's little boy Nate, too. Max, however, had given up on his faith in God, and Lily longs to show Max that God is always there for him, through good times and bad. As obstacles come into their path, though, can Max and Lily find love with one another, or will they be torn apart once again?

This book was almost bipolar in nature. There was Lily, who was considered to be superhumanly kind and compassionate, almost to the point where she was a doormat, allowing everyone to walk on her. Even though people would say things to rile her, she'd just let it go and take it, instead of saying anything about it. The few times she actually stood up to someone bullying her, she felt guilty about it later. She was very weak-willed for most of the book. Then, suddenly, there was this transformation in her towards the end of the book, and she became a vengeful shrew-like person. It was like watching her dramatically change into someone completely new, and it was kind of weird.

Most of the book was spent trying to convince and cajole Max into becoming a Christian again, which got really repetitive and annoying after a while. I felt really sorry for him, trying to be guilted into becoming a Christian again. The author also had the tendency to introduce something into the plot, and then forget about it. For example, Max's son Nate had a prominent role in the first half of the book, but was barely even mentioned in the second half of the book. It was almost like Nate didn't exist. Another example is the guilt Max supposedly felt for his wife's suicide, and yet it was barely mentioned at all.

There was a glaring error in the book when Lily donated blood to Nate. Nate's blood was AB-, and Lily's blood was o+. Granted, I'm not a nurse yet, but I know that people who have negative blood cannot receive donations from someone with positive blood. Maybe most people wouldn't give that error a second glance, but honestly, if someone was given the wrong type of blood, the results could be disastrous. Also, Max also admitted in the book that he was in love with Lily when he used to live in Amarillo. The idea of an 18-year-old man being in love with a 12-year-old child made me VERY uncomfortable.

All of these pale in comparison to a lovely sentence found on page 212. The author said, in so many words, that if someone didn't trust Jesus, he or she can't be trusted as a person. I don't know what kind of fantasy world this book was supposed to be set in, but I know that this statement is patently false. The person I trust most in this world is an atheist, and I would trust him with my life and the life of my daughter. Just because someone is not of a particular religion does not make them untrustworthy, and to assume so is just plain wrong. This elitist and false comment got under my skin, big time. I could give no more than two stars for this book, and that was a stretch, to say the least.