The Baby Gamble (Texas Hold'em, Book 1) (Harlequin Superromance, No 1446) [Mass Market Paperback]

Tara Taylor Quinn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 9, 2007

Brought together by baby Annie Kincaid wants a baby more than anything in the world.

But she’s been burned by love and now she can’t let any man get close to her. So she’ll have her child – on her own.

Blake Smith is trustworthy, honourable – and clearly out of his mind! There’s no other reason that he’s contemplating helping Annie achieve her crazy goal.

Except that when he looks into her sparkling eyes, he just wants to make her happy – in every way he can!

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (October 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373714467
• ISBN-13: 978-0373714469
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The author of more than 50 original novels, in twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestseller with over six million copies sold. She is known for delivering deeply emotional and psychologically astute novels of suspense and romance. Tara has appeared on national and local TV across the country, including CBS Sunday Morning. When she's not writing or fulfilling speaking engagements, Tara loves to travel with her husband, stopping wherever the spirit takes them. They've been spotted in casinos and quaint little small town antique shops all across the country.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars interesting Texas romance, October 5, 2007

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Baby Gamble (Texas Hold'em, Book 1) (Harlequin Superromance, No 1446) (Mass Market Paperback)

Blake Smith spent just under four years as a prisoner of a Middle East group, but now returns to blessed dusty Texas. He looks forward to seeing his beloved wife Annie, whose image kept him alive during his forty-seven month ordeal. However, he learns while he was declared legally dead, she remarried.

Two years later, divorced from her second husband Annie tells her brother Cole that she wants a baby to raise without a husband. Cole thinks his Texas Hold `Em buddy Blake is the right person and she agrees with her sibling even if he was her first spouse. Blake wants his wife back so he accepts THE BABY GAMBLE.

This is an interesting Texas romance due to Blake. He mentally survived his captivity by having a post incarceration goal of making love to Annie, but has not achieved his surviving objective once freed and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Annie is a well rounded character who the audience will understand her reluctance to consider marrying again. However, the tale totally belongs to Blake who antes up THE BABY GAMBLE with plans to raise the stakes until he holds the winning hand of Annie.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Two and Half stars, December 4, 2007

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Emma White - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Baby Gamble (Texas Hold'em, Book 1) (Harlequin Superromance, No 1446) (Mass Market Paperback)

I liked the characters. Sometimes they got annoying but for the most part I was attached to them by the end which is always a good sign for me. Or so I'm finding.
The plot wasn't all that great. It was... weird. She goes to her ex-husband and asks him to get her pregnant, but she's not the one who thinks this is a good idea though. Nope. Her brother does. Like I said... Weird.
The female character grows on me, but that was more toward the ending. I didn't like how she had left her husband for another man. Okay that sounds weird considering. You would have to read the book.
I don't think it's worth full price. I think that if you can get a deal on the book then it's worth it.