Baby Business: 9 Months Later (Harlequin Superromance No. 955) [Paperback]

Brenda Novak (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Superromance | Publication Date: December 1, 2000

She needs money, a lot of it, to pay for her daughter's operation. Macy McKinney will do anything for five-year-old Haley.

Businessman Thad Winters, a widower, wants a child without the complications of a relationship. He's willing to pay for that. He interviews applicants--and hires Macy to have his baby.

Once Macy's pregnant, they decide that a temporary marriage will simplify the situation--but it does exactly the opposite!

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373709552
• ISBN-13: 978-0373709557
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,874,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brenda Novak Bio

It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak's career as a bestselling author--she caught her day-care provider drugging her children with cough syrup to get them to sleep all day. That was when Brenda decided she needed to quit her job as a loan officer and help make a living from home.

"When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book," Brenda says. But she sold that book, and the rest is history. Her novels have made the New York Times, USA Today and Borders/Waldenbooks bestseller lists and won many awards, including two Rita nominations, the Book Buyer's Best, the Book Seller's Best and the National Reader's Choice Award.

Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are proud parents of five children--three girls and two boys. When she's not spending time with her family or writing, Brenda is usually working on her annual fund-raiser for diabetes research--an online auction held on her Web site (www.brendanovak.com) every May. Brenda has raised over $1 million to date.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Myshelf.Com Reviewer, January 18, 2001

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Suzie Housley (Oak Ridge, Tn United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Business: 9 Months Later (Harlequin Superromance No. 955) (Paperback)

Brenda Novak is a writer who writes with gut-wrenching emotion. The characters she creates will quickly become a part of your everyday life. Her latest, Baby Business, is set in Salt Lake City. The hero, Thad Winter, a widower of 18 months, still mourns the death of his beloved spouse and unborn child. His late wife and unborn child were tragically taken out of his life by a drunken driver. Thad decides to have the child he was denied and give him something to live for once again. He offers a hundred thousand dollars for a woman to accept artificial insemination, carry his baby to fruition, and to stay out of their lives after delivery. He is convinced he can never love anyone as much as his late wife.

Thad has many applications trying to collect the hundred thousand dollar prize. Most are very bold and eager to assure their place as the selected candidate. Tactics they use to entice Thad only turns him off until he meets Macy McKinley. Macy is a mystery to Thad. She is neither bold nor aggressive in her pursuit of the hundred thousand dollar check. She refuses to tell him why she is in need of such a large amount of money. However, during a background check, Thad learns that the divorced Macy needs the money so that her beloved five-year-old daughter Haley can receive a life saving bone marrow transplant. Thad and Macy reach an agreement that includes him safeguarding his investment by a temporary marriage. As Macy and Thad remain in close proximity, they fall in love. However, she mistrusts love after her former spouse deserted her, and he feels guilty for betraying his first wife by falling in love again. Love may not be enough to heal the deep wounds of either one of this deserving pair.

Baby Business is an emotional read that will keep the reader turning the pages until the end. Her characters are so well developed you will long remember them long after you finish one of her novels.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, March 20, 2001

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Huntress Reviews (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Business: 9 Months Later (Harlequin Superromance No. 955) (Paperback)

Macy McKinney's young daughter, Haley, is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant. The cost is ..., to be paid before surgery. Desperate, she took a friend's advice to contact Thad Winters.

Thad had lost his wife and unborn child less than two years before. Unable to love another woman, he put out the word that he would pay the woman he chose from applicants to be artificially inseminated, have his child, and then walk away forever. He chose Macy McKinney. Then his family gets involved. To keep his parents or Macy's from discovering their "contract", he convinces Macy to temporarily marry him and act the loving wife (in name only). But things quickly fall apart as he begins to care for Macy and Haley.

***** AWESOME STORY, READERS! Here is one that you do not want to miss! Macy is in a catch twenty-two and the author wrote it all so well that I could not help but get deeply into the book and cheer for Macy! Excellent read!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read!, March 14, 2003

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Detra Fitch (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baby Business: 9 Months Later (Harlequin Superromance No. 955) (Paperback)

Macy McKinney's young daughter, Haley, is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant. The cost is ..., to be paid before surgery. Desperate, she took a friend's advice to contact Thad Winters.

Thad had lost his wife and unborn child less than two years before. Unable to love another woman, he put out the word that he would pay the woman he chose from applicants to be artificially inseminated, have his child, and then walk away forever. He chose Macy McKinney. Then his family gets involved. To keep his parents or Macy's from discovering their "contract", he convinces Macy to temporarily marry him and act the loving wife (in name only). But things quickly fall apart as he begins to care for Macy and Haley.

***** AWESOME STORY, READERS! Here is one that you do not want to miss! Macy is in a catch twenty-two and the author wrote it all so well that I could not help but get deeply into the book and cheer for Macy! Excellent read!