Customer Reviews

The Babe and Baron

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It is hard to write a good romance where the heroine is pregnant with another man's child, but Dunn pulled it off. Laura, the heroine, was married to a charming but unstable drifter. He dies in a foolish accident and she is left alone and pregnant. Enter the hero, Gareth, who is a very honorable lord, and offers to take her into the family since he was related to her husband. He has concerns about her pregnancy, and deep-rooted fears about the dangers of caring too much for anyone, dating back to his childhood. The heaviness related to these issues is tempered by some great moments of humor. The eccentric inventor uncle, who eventually invents a carriage, stroller, and play pen, adds a light touch. While the story may not be totally historically accurate(I doubt that the hero would have been allowed to be in the room during the delivery), I don't read my romances for strict historic accuracy, and I didn't see any glaring errors that detracted from the story. It was a touching and fun book, and one that I will definitely re-read over and over again. The hero's brothers are wonderful, and I would like to see books about their future romances. The secondary characters are part of what makes the book so charming.

This was a story of an account of Lady Laura's pregnancy started from five months to laboring and beyond. While it was a tender relationship among all the household members, it was also a slow-going development with so many sub-characters in-and-out of the scene but without having them fully developed. It also lacked a certain crispness of the story flow which made it hard to retain my concentration. I started flipping the pages half-way through the book. It was a decent read, but not my favorite.

It is hard to write a good romance where the heroine is pregnant with another man's child, but Dunn pulled it off. Laura, the heroine, was married to a charming but unstable drifter. He dies in a foolish accident and she is left alone and pregnant. Enter the hero, Gareth, who is a very honorable lord, and offers to take her into the family since he was related to her husband. He has concerns about her pregnancy, and deep-rooted fears about the dangers of caring too much for anyone, dating back to his childhood. The heaviness related to these issues is tempered by some great moments of humor. The eccentric inventor uncle, who eventually invents a carriage, stroller, and play pen, adds a light touch. While the story may not be totally historically accurate(I doubt that the hero would have been allowed to be in the room during the delivery), I don't read my romances for strict historic accuracy, and I didn't see any glaring errors that detracted from the story. It was a touching and fun book, and one that I will definitely re-read over and over again. The hero's brothers are wonderful, and I would like to see books about their future romances. The secondary characters are part of what makes the book so charming.

[from the back of book] SHE WAS A WISTFUL WIDOW WITH A BABE ON THE WAY ......It wasn't all that shocking when Lady Laura Chamberlain's ne'er-do-well husband met his untimely end. Far more scandalous was Laura's precarious predicament: She was left without a spouse, without means.....and with child! Her unlikely savior was the dashing Lord Wyckham, who deemed it his duty to protect the young widow. Soon Laura found her esconced in his magnificent ancestral manor surrounded by his delightfully eccentic relatives. But Wyckham himslf was the oddest of all: He was a confirmed bachelor, yet he treated Laura as anything but an unwanted relation!
HE WAS HER HANDSOME PROTECTOR....... Lord Wyckham could not, simply would not, fail in his duty! His cousin's widow needed a home, and he intended to provide it. Especially when he took note of Laura's winsome charms, including her puzzling but not altogether displeasing plumpness. Then he discovered the truth! Now, the usually unflappable Wyckham was at sixes and sevens. He began experiencing the most tender feelings for Laura and Her imminent arrival. Was it at long last love? ******
The Baron, Gareth, Lord Wyckham upsets many because of his personal fears. Yet he collects a number of relatives to take care of as his duty. He also has a number of brothers who turn out to be quite lovable. There is Cornelius, who has the parish living -- then Captian the honorable Rupert Wyckham -- Lance, is still in school and the youngest Perry, who is fifteen, all attrictive blondes.
Being put up also is Maria, an unhappy cousin and her three children - 2 sons and a daughter.
There is great uncle Julius, an inventor and quite a character.
And Aunt Antonia, who helped raise Wyckham and his brothers on the death of their mother. A thoroughly enjoyable tale.