The Second Time Around (Harlequin Next) [Mass Market Paperback]

Marie Ferrarella (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Next | Publication Date: January 1, 2007

By the way, did you know you’re pregnant?

Eight tiny words, but strung together in one sentence...they are destined to destroy life as Laurel Mitchell knows it. For after twenty-five years of wedlock and three grown children, starting over with the diaper-and-formula scene is...inconceivable.

Apparently not. Now her sweetly snoozing marriage is frantically adjusting to a most unexpected wake-up call. And to the new man in her life--her husband, Jason. Recently devoted to working long hours and planning the perfect road trip, he's suddenly become impossibly sexy, affectionate and overprotective.

And between the tears (hers) and the terror (his) they're waiting for a bundle of joy in pink (yes, pink!) that's already proving life's most unexpected gifts are the best.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373881231
• ISBN-13: 978-0373881239
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,459,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars deep look atan unexpected life changing event, December 28, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Second Time Around (Harlequin Next) (Mass Market Paperback)

Forty-five years old realtor Laurel Mitchell feels she is fortunate as her spouse of twenty-five years Jason loves her and her him. Their three sons are doing quite well and so are they as evidenced by Jason's hobby collecting toy trains.

Everything suddenly changes when her gynecologist Dr. Kilpatrick during Laurel's annual checkup informs her that she is pregnant. Her husband does not want to raise another child who will turn into teen as they turn sixty. Their youngest offspring is embarrassed by the announcement. Her sister is envious as she will never have a child to raise, as her husband dumped her with no offspring. The extended Mitchell family has been hit for a loop as blue is out and pink is in.

Laurel shows how this deep look of an unexpected life changing event, even a supposedly rejoicing one, impacts this extended family. The spouse, the sister, the three sons and a potential fiancée to one of them are stunned to say the least as none can quite accept a forty-five years old woman, not trying to become pregnant, carrying. This late in life pregnancy makes for a fabulous family drama though it is actually the fourth time around for Laurel; albeit a two decade gap between three and four.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars FROM BACK COVER, March 22, 2008

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Avid Reader "Jim" (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Second Time Around (Harlequin Next) (Mass Market Paperback)

By the way, did you know you're pregnant?

Eight tiny words, but strung together in one sentence... they are destined to destroy life as Laural Mitchell knows it. For after twenty-five years of wedlock and three grown children, starting over with the diaper and formula scene is... inconceivable.

Apparently not. Now her sweetly snoozing marriage is frantically adjusting to a most unexpected wake-up call. And to the new man in her life - her husband, Jason. Recently devoted to working long hours and planning the perfect road trip, he's suddenly becoming impossibly sexy, affectionate and overprotective.

And between the tears (hers) and the terror (his) they're waiting for a bundle of joy in pink (yes, pink!) that's already proving life's most unexpected gifts are the best.