Bachelor's Baby (Ready for Baby) (Harlequin Romance, No 3666) [Mass Market Paperback]

Liz Fielding (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2001

For Jake Hallam and Amy Jones it was love at first sight. Amy recognized it -- the trouble was, Jake refused to. But he couldn't refuse to acknowledge that, after a night a of tender lovemaking, Amy was expecting his baby.

Jake was horrified ... yet fascinated. He couldn't stay away from Amy -- or ignore the growing life he'd helped create. And every time he came back, it was harder to leave. Could he put his own terrible childhood behind him and learn to be a husband and father before the baby arrived?

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Jake and Amy made their first appearance in His Runaway Bride. They seemed to me to be made for each other.

About the Author

Twice RITA nominated author Liz Fielding has published more than twenty Harlequin Romances. Look out for HIS PERSONAL AGENDA, coming soon.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (August 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373036663
• ISBN-13: 978-0373036660
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,283,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Reading is, and always has been, the first love of my life. Except writing.
Success came early -- I was twelve when I won an Easter egg in a hymn writing competition at school - but life intervened with my plans to become a hot shot author. The day job. Not that this was dull. I travelled to Zambia at the age of twenty where I worked as a secretary, before following my personal hero to the Middle East, Kenya, Botswana and ambition became buried in the joyful business of raising a family.

I never forgot that I was a "writer", however. I wrote children's stories for Listen With Mother. Magazines articles. Ghost stories. I was at a point where I wanted to move onto something bigger when I read a magazine piece about Charlotte Lamb and Anne Hampson and discovered, rather late in life, romantic fiction. I read everything I could lay my hands on, then, feeling certain I had a grasp of the genre, began writing. I had three rejections - I still have those letters! -- but my fourth submission became An Image of You and was published in 1992.

Since then seven of my books have been shortlisted for RWA's RITA award - two of them, THE BEST MAN & THE BRIDESMAID and THE MARRIAGE MIRACLE winning in 2001 and 2006, respectively. A FAMILY OF HIS OWN always won the RNA's Romance Prize in 2005.

My best-beloved and I are empty-nesters these days, living out in the country where excitement means a visit from the mobile shop, the travelling library, the fish man. But I'm a writer, I invent my own worlds. Once the door to the my cabin in the woods is closed I can be anywhere my imagination takes me; the desert kingdom of Ramal Hamrah, the villages of Upper Haughton, Little Hinton and Longbourne where romance is always just around the corner, or I can jet off to New York, the Mediterranean, even the Himalayas. Come and see where I'm headed next - http://www.lizfielding.com

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Bachelor's Baby by Liz Fielding (Large Print Harlequin), December 4, 2006

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Ketzel (Vera Cruz, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bachelor's Baby (Ready for Baby) (Harlequin Romance, No 3666) (Hardcover)

This is a great story - I have to say that Amaryllis Jones seems almost a little bit too perfect, but she's exactly what Jake Hallam needed so I didn't really mind ... I rate this five stars and recommend!

Here's a short excerpt from the book:

'I don't do commitment,' he said roughly. Almost hoping that she would tell him to go. Leave. Get out. She didn't say any of those things. She said nothing, her green eyes holding his, demanding that he make his own decision about whether to go or stay. The warning bells clanged with a desperate urgency but all afternoon her eyes had silently promised him everything he had ever wanted from a woman. Promised that she would fulfil his every dream. She was wasting her time. He had no dreams. He was a hollow man, rich in the stuff that money could buy, but without a heart, incapable of love. Most of the time he lived with it, scarely noticing the emptiness. Today, wrapped in the warmth of friends whose love for each other, whose happiness had reached new heights with the birth of their baby son, he had been painfully aware of his own shortcomings. Amy Jones was offering him a chance to forget, to lose himself for a few hours, and without a word he gathered in key and woman in one movement. For a moment he simply held her, breathed in the scent of rain-washed earth and wallflowers and bluebells. For a moment anything seemed possible. Fantasy, he knew, but his mouth came down on hers with a deep hunger, a longing to be proved wrong ...