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For a Baby: 9 Months Later (Harlequin Superromance No. 1203)

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Heather Sweeney has not had very good luck with love. She had a baby out of wedlock with her high school boyfriend and gave the baby up for adoption, and then her husband a Canadian Mountie was shot to death pulling over a crazy driver. Then she finds out that she has tumers in her uterus that would force her to have a hysterectumy in the not so distent future. The day she finds out about the tumers T.J Collins comes in to her rescue at the bar she was at and they go back to her house and make love.

Several months later she finds out she is pregnant and tells T. J they have to get married beccause it would look bad to her students. They do get married, but it is totally different than what they were expecting. One of the major things that they have problems with is his daugter by a previous marriage. He thinks that he should have no contact with her because she has a step-father, but Heather does not agree.

Things get worse when the sister of two of her students comes into her classroom and asks her questions that make it ovious that she is pregant. Heather gets involved in helping this girl, but her boyfriend, Ryan does not like it.

After several months of this Ryan wants his girlfriend to have an abortion, but his girlfriend does not want one. The day that the abortion is sceduled for Heather meets the girlfriend at Heathers house but Ryan comes in and makes them go into his girlfriends truck. He makes Heather, who is 8 and 1/2 months pregnant, drive over to a pasture near his house and makes her get out of the car. It is in the middle of a blizzard, so Heather is worried about the baby. She starts walking, but soon gets really cold.

T.J who had been out, came back to the house and calls around to find his wife. He eventually finds her, but then she starts going into labor several weeks early.

Things turn out fine in the end, the baby is perfect. Ryan is arrested and his girlfriend isn't hurt, but still is pregnant and Heather and T.J. find out that they really do love eachother

Years after her first love married someone else, Heather Sweeney still carries a torch for Russell. Now a medical condition leads to early infertility. So when explosive passion leads her to bed with T.J. Collins, Heather does not care if she becomes pregnant. In fact, part of her hopes that she does. Once she learns of her pregnancy, however, Heather informs T.J. of her condition and asks him to marry her.

T.J. fears setting expectations that he cannot meet. He would rather decline involvement in Heather's life and their unborn child than to somehow fail them. With his previous family, he has already proven that even if he occasionally gets something right, he always disappoints his loved ones in the end. Only in the intimacy of their bedroom does he freely show his feelings for Heather. But the question remains how long that can be enough for either of them.

C.J. Carmichael takes a challenging position with her heroine in FOR A BABY. Heather deliberately allows herself to get pregnant, and her marital expectation of T.J. seems wildly unfair given their situation. Only the fact that he so easily capitulates redeems the situation. While she might be a woman who always tried to the right thing, Heather's long term fantasy regarding Russell's refusal to accept his emotions and Heather's machinations make for a rather cold beginning to a read that becomes remarkably tender by the end. While that extreme shift of tone provides a lovely read when all is said and done, it does require the reader to persevere. FOR A BABY comes recommended.