A Baby for Christmas [Hardcover]

Anne McAllister (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 8, 1995

THIS TIME, FOREVER

Once, he accused her of trading sex for a wedding ring….

Carly knew Piran wasn't her Mr. Right. He'd rejected her innocent infatuation years ago, and he certainly didn't see himself as a doting husband and father!

Now they had joint custody of a baby!

But now Piran needed Carly's help: a baby had been abandoned on his doorstep. He fiercely denied he was a father…. So whose child was it? Piran was determined to find out but, meanwhile, he was left holding the baby. And his paternal instincts were a little rusty! Forced into being a surrogate family with Piran, Carly began to wonder if Christmas had not only turned him into perfect father material—but an ideal husband, as well.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Mills & Boon (September 8, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263144704
• ISBN-13: 978-0263144703
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

I was born in California and grew up there on the beaches of SoCal where I used to think I would write humorous social commentaries and pithy columns about life between "here and the pier" in Manhattan Beach.

But then I left. I went away to college and then married and moved to the Midwest. Since then I've been in the Midwest and Montana and made the mental transition to life with four seasons with no trouble at all.

In fact, last time I was in MB I looked at the inlaid terrazzo tiles in the sidewalk on the hill leading down to the pier and thought to myself, "Who on earth would put tiles in the sidewalk? It will be so hard to shovel the snow off!"

See?

Despite my beach upbringing, I was the child of transplanted okies and montanans, and my love of cowboys was apparently bred in the bone. The first man I fell in love with was a cowboy. I was five years old -- and I imprinted on him, following him everywhere, like a duck.

So when I started writing romance fiction years later, there was no question that even my CEOs and beach volleyball players and Greek tycoons were, at their heart, cowboy heroes.

McAllister heroes have a strong sense of honor, determination, competence, and a "get it done" attitude. They are more often lone wolves than they are alphas. They go their own way -- until they meet the woman who makes them want to share their life. And a lone wolf who takes on a spouse has to have some alpha in him. She definitely brings it out.

Writing has been a wonderful opportunity for me to expand my horizons, to learn more about things that interest me. It gives me license to satisfy my curiosity and to meet people from all walks of life. I love it. The ideas never seem to dry up. They are everywhere. I'm looking forward to writing a whole lot more.

I'm always glad to hear from readers so stop by my website or blog if you have comments or questions.

Customer Reviews

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not Author's Best, July 17, 2011

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Terracotta Dove (Arlington, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: A Baby for Christmas (Kindle Edition)

I love McAllister, but this one . . . not so much.

Basically, the hero is too unlikeable. For the first half of the book, all he does is rage and sulk and complain. That is ALL he brings to the table. And where does all this anger and unhappiness come from? His parents' divorce, and father's subsequent marriage to the heroine's mother. All of this happened a decade ago. His father has been dead for something like seven years. He hasn't even seen the heroine in nine. And he doesn't have the excuse that he was a kid when it all went down; he was in his twenties. Come ON!

In the second half of the book, he decides that possibly he had been a jerk. Still thinks her mom wasn't good enough to marry into the family, but maybe he shouldn't have punished his dad for marrying her? So, he's trying to be nice to our heroine all of a sudden. But his first response in two later situations (neither involving her) is the same rush to judgment and instant fury. So, this isn't situational, this is his personality. She even recognizes this, mentally ruminates that if they married, he wouldn't cheat on her because he IS so judgemental. If she was my girlfriend, I'd be suggesting she RUN, far and fast.

One note: the hero was a writer, but the books were non-fiction and he was more the expert consultant. His brother - then, the heroine - did the actual writing, turned the information into a book that would sell. I thought that was a little different, and I liked it. But that is pretty much all I liked.

Buy almost anything else by McAllister instead.