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Fletcher's Baby! (Mills & Boon Romance)

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This is a very good follow-up to Finn's Twins! Here we get to find out what happened to Sam Fletcher after Isobel turned him down to marry Finn.
About 7 months after Isobel and Finn got married, Sam's aunt Hattie died and left Sam everything.
Her bed and breakfast Inn and all its furnishings, her Ming vases, her Tiffany glass, her entire collection of Stickley oak, her Grant Wood sketches and her Frank Lloyd Wright elevations.
She also left him three cats -Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Wallace Berry by name and a dog named Humphrey Bogart and a parakeet named Fred Astaire and an unidentified object simply named Josephine Nolan.
"What?" -- Sam knew who Josephine Nolan was.
Sam had never been in a situation he couldn't handle but when Josie Nolan told Sam that the baby that she was expecting was his he was more than a little shaken.
A Fletcher baby meant one thing to Sam: marriage. It was the logical, sensible, responsible thing to do, wasn't it?
But Josie wanted to marry for love, not logic.
Her false contractions gave Sam some very scary moments, but he could handle it couldn't he?
But how could he get Josie to fall in love with him? It took seeing Isobel and Finn again to help him recognize his own love for Josie and his child.
Very good book and a great duo for enjoyable reading.

Second book in Anne McAllister's New York! New York! series ... all six books in this series are not to be missed! I recommend reading them in order, although each can be enjoyed as a stand-alone novel as well. Make room on your keeper shelf for the entire series: Finn's Twins, Fletcher's Baby, Gibson's Girl, Rhys's Redemption, The Inconvenient Bride, and Nathan's Child.

Description from the book back cover:

"SHE WILLED ME A WOMAN?" New York City tycoon Sam Fletcher couldn't believe his ears when he heard Great-Aunt Hattie's will! Hattie was eccentric, but she wasn't crazy. She knew he and Josie Nolan had nothing in common. Or so he thought until he discovered Josie was expecting his child! A Fletcher baby meant one thing to Sam - marriage. It was the logical, sensible, responsible thing to do. But Josie said no. She was determined to marry for love, not logic. The baby's birth was imminent, so Sam needed to change her mind - quick!

Big McAllister fan, but this one wasn't up to her standard.

I wasn't that enamored of the hero. He's a go-getter in business, but in his personal life, I thought him too passive. He tended to avoid, rather than deal, and throughout the story, others had to point the way: his aunt, mom, secretary, ex, etc. Turned me off.

I did like the heroine, especially in the beginning. But her relationship with her ex - both past and present - wasn't comprehensible. And the complications in her pregnancy made the setting claustrophobic.

The supporting characters were the best part. The brief scenes with Izzy & Finn were so alive compared to the rest of the book, that it paled out the lead romance.

However, a less than stellar book by McAllister is still loads better than most authors, and she remains an auto-buy for me. Eight books of her back list (including this one) were released yesterday, and I will eagerly devour all of them.

I have read every book Anne McAllister has written. I don't like the Greek connection (usual 'Presents' rich tycoons) but her Vermont-New York people are a joy. Wish Harlequin would let her out of the tycoon business.