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Her Secret Children

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Vicky Sutton thinks that she will never have children. That is why she and her former husband Zane decided to have her eggs fertilized. It is a shock then after the death of Zane in a car accident that she has become a mother to twins.

The lab that kept her eggs and the eggs of other woman was selling them to infertile couples trying to have a baby. An Englishman James Thayer and his wife used Vicky's eggs to have little Edmund and Mary Rose, but then Mrs. Thayer left her husband and children to go live with another man in France.

Once Vicky hears about this, she gets a lawyer and demands custody of her son and daughter. James though does not want this and so pretending to be her lawyer Vicky goes to England to confront James. What she finds there is something else instead.

"Her Secret Children" is the first book that I read by Judith McWillians and the first Silhouette Romance that I have read in a very long while. In this book American Vicky Sutton learns that her frozen eggs were given to an English couple, the result is twins. Wanting to see her children, Vicky goes to England were she meets James Thayer, thier father.
While I liked the plot I have admitt I wished that the story was given more time to develop. I know these are to be fairly quick reads, I would have loved to emotions from the characters.

HER IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

Widowed, wary of men, with her eggs in frozen storage, Vicky Sutton feared motherhood was forever beyond her reach. Until the impossible happened. Her eggs were illegally used to give a British aristocrat twin heirs!

Vicky vowed that even James Thayer, the formidable, filthy-rich single father of her beautiful babies, would prove no match for a loving, middle-class, American mom. She was determined to be a mother to her twins - even if it meant a few white lies. But would her intense, irrational attraction to her children's sexy daddy thwart her plans... or lay the foundation for the family of her dreams?

No pre-marital sex [PMS] but just beautiful hormonal attraction.
We must clear up one misconception - Zane Sutton did not fertilize any eggs.
Vicky Sutton was not about to get married - been there, done that. Zane ruined any chance of her agreeing to ever marry again.
So when the lawyers contacted her about her eggs being illegally used to produce children without her consent she was at first angry, then on second thoughts, estactic.

She had a son, Edmund and daughter, Mary Rose by an English aristocrat who does not want to share his twins with her.

James Edward Andrew William Thayer was not about to share custody of his babies with some American mom. Then Vicky shows up claiming to be Ms. Lascoe [her lawyer] and she invades his domain.

Suddenly things get changed - Vicky faces down the pompous Nanny and insists that James can see his children when he decides not when Nanny says.
She interfers and agrees with Aunt Sophie that she should be allowed to wear her costume jewelry outside the home if she wants.
Vicky also does the unthinkable - she show interest in James collection of rare maps. And also, almost gets caught up in her lies.

Then Esmee shows up with her regal aire and wants Vicky gone. She is a neighbor who wants to marry James. Well in the end Aunt Sophie and Vicky band together against Esmee.

This turned out to be such a delightful read with innocent lusting [if that is possible] and strong hormonal attraction with both fighting not to fall in love. What is it that they don't understand about pheromones?

Definitely Recommended -- A joy to read.