The Boss's Little Miracle (Harlequin Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Barbara McMahon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 4, 2007 | Series: Harlequin Romance (Book 3993)

Promoted and pregnant! Life is about choices--but, as Anna Larkin knows, sometimes life makes those choices for you. Knowing she can never have children, Anna has thrown herself into a high-flying career. She's poised for promotion when in walks her new CEO...the man who broke her heart a few weeks ago! As soon as Tanner realized he was going to be Anna's new boss he ended things--for both their sakes. He knows business and romance don't mix--and Anna agrees--But then Anna discovers that a little miracle has happened--and it changes everything!

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (December 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 037303993X
• ISBN-13: 978-0373039937
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,837,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bestselling, award winning author Barbara McMahon has written more than 80 novels which have sold more than 16 million copies world wide in more than fifty countries in twenty-eight languages.

Known for her heartwarming, emotional stories, she excels in capturing those feelings when first falling in love. She has won or been nominated for every major award in the romance genre from a double nomination in the RITA to winning the Bookseller's Best, National Readers Choice Award and the prestigious HOLT Medallion, among others.

Barbara lives in a rural county in California's gold rush country. She loves the history of the place and is involved in the county's genealogy group and historic cemetery preservation in addition to volunteering one day a week at the local Animal Shelter.

For a complete list of books or to contact Barbara, visit her website: www.barbaramcmahon.com

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1.0 out of 5 stars Insulting betrayal of her heroine, January 21, 2010

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Terri Harris "terri_ah" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boss's Little Miracle (Harlequin Romance) (Kindle Edition)

This book started off strong. I liked the main characters. The hero is a corporate exec who has been burned by his ex-wife. When he gets involved with the heroine the inevitable sparks fly, but neither imagine marriage. The hero unexpectedly ends their relationship, and a few weeks later the heroine discovers that the reason he did so is that he is her new boss. Awkward right? Also fun reading!

The trouble starts when it becomes clear that the hero will not allow the heroine to grow professionally. He keeps her from getting a promotion that she earned and that EVERYONE felt she was the best person for because of his own possessiveness. He brings in an outside man- an unqualified and unprofessional one- to do the job that she wanted instead. Wow. Isn't this everything that the women's movement fought to keep from happening? Isn't this the kind of thing that gets companies sued? Sorry, but that is not love. That is ownership. And it KEEPS getting worse.

Instead of some acknowledgment of the heroine's wants and personhood, we get the last few pages. The pages where our heroine who has worked for YEARS to attain her goals did a COMPLETE 180 and decided that instead of managing her career and following her own personal dreams what she REALLY wanted was to be "the perfect CEO's wife". I could not make this up. She LITERALLY said she wanted to be his perfect accessory.

I could not be more disgusted. What is this, the 50's? Books like this one give the romance genre a bad name. I read these because the heroines are fun, and the stories are warm and sometimes touching. This wasn't warm or touching, it was gross. It was about one person changing who they are entirely just to please someone else. That is not love. Not even romance novel love.

In real life things like this do happen. Women have babies and their priorities change. But you know what? I don't want to read about it in my Harlequins. For very good reason- this writer is CLEARLY not skillful enough to write about such a thing even a little bit well or even believably.

If I hadn't been reading this on my kindle the book would have gone flying at the wall. I am beyond annoyed. What were they thinking? I want my money back.

PASS!