Sweet Baby [Import] [Paperback]

SHARON SALA (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: MIRA BOOKS (2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778300250
• ISBN-13: 978-0778300250
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,163,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sharon Sala is a long time member of Romance Writers of America writing as Sharon Sala and Dinah McCall. She writes romantic suspense, Young Adult, and Women's Fiction. First published in 1991, she's a seven-time RITA finalist, winner of the Janet Dailey Award, four-time winner of the Career Achievement award from RT Magazine, five time winner of the National Reader's Choice Award and five time winner of the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence as well as the Bookseller Best Award. Her books are New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly mass market best-sellers. Writing changed her life, her world, and her fate.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If only all men could show this much love, May 23, 2005

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A. Rowley (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sweet Baby (Mass Market Paperback)

From the very beginning, you feel sympathy for Tory Lancaster. What it would be like to only be six years old and come home to an empty house and your entire family gone. Luckily twenty five years later she has fallen in love with a man whose only concerns lie with Tory. His love is genuine and although it seems far fetched from reality to meet a man with that much compassion for a woman, romance books are of interest to most women for the mere fact that they want to experience something that they themselves have never witnessed in a man. Brett Hooker is unlike any other man, and you can't help but to wish that some man cared for you with that same amount of passion.
This story is one of those ones that hit you square in the chest. It is not suspenseful in an action packed way, but there is that element of being a low key page-turner. You can not help but get a little choked up while reading this book. It will tug at your heart strings on a couple different levels. It is classified as a romantic suspense, but I would classify it much more as a contemporary romance with a hint of suspense. If you are looking for an action packed suspense with a touch of romance, than this book is not for you. On the other hand, if you would like to read something that will clearly make you feel the power of love than buy this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read, December 24, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Sweet Baby (Mass Market Paperback)

In 1973 Arkansas, six year old Victoria Lancaster was abandoned. Due to selective amnesia, the trauma of coming home to an empty house has been buried deep in her subconscious. Over the subsequent years, Tory's childhood memories revolve around being bounced from foster home to foster home. For the past three years, Tory has lived with DA investigator Brett Hooker. Over the past quarter of a century, he is the only person to slightly dent Tory's emotional shield, but even he knows that in spite of their obvious love for each other, the ephemeral Tory is incapable of any deeper commitment.

Her last photo assignment had Tory away from Brett for six weeks. However, though their lovemaking reaches stratospheric heights, something seems to be bothering Tory. A picture of a tattooed person that she recently shot has invoked hidden memories and has led to gruesome nightmares. Between this and Brett being shot on the job, Tory fears being abandoned again. Though thoroughly frightened, the intrepid Tory decides it is time to confront her past, regardless of the danger it leads to, if she is to enjoy a future with the man she loves.

SWEET BABY is an ingenious psychological romance that allows readers to see first hand the childhood traumas affecting an otherwise tender but dauntless individual and the man willing to risk everything to protect her back. The story line is both emotional and fast-paced, a rare summit that only the supreme scribes such as Sharon Sala can successfully scale. Fans of psychological romance will cherish this keeper.

Harriet Klausner

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oh no, not another one!, September 14, 2005

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mahikahn (Columbus, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sweet Baby (Mass Market Paperback)

It seems lately when I send a review that I've read a different book than everyone else. I found the female lead in this book unsympathetic and the male lead a bit of a wimp.

Torie has been with Brett for four years. The last three, they've been living together in "his" apartment. In Torrie's mind nothing is theirs or even hers. Everything is Brett's. Brett's bed, Brett's chair, Brett's bedroom. Speaks of a lack commitment or permancence on her part.

Torie keeps simply disappearing from Brett's life with no warning and rarely even leaves a note. She never bothers to tell him where she is and he has no way to get hold of her in an emergency. Jeez he could be dead and buried for all she knows. Occasionally, she might send a postcard, letter or leave a message on his answering machine. On very rare occasions he actually gets to speak to her! She`d be gone 6 or 8 weeks, stroll back in, and never tell him where she was, what she was doing or if she'd been with someone else. Or not. Yet Torie makes Brett constantly promise he'll never leave her. She has a problem because of being left in her childhood. Why then would she constantly hurt the man she cares about by doing the same to him? Probably because she knows she can.

Yes, she had horrible, horrible things happen to her in her childhood and they needed to be worked out. But Torie wasn't interested in getting help. If she'd really cared about Brett she would have broken it off with him completely so he'd have a chance with a life with someone who truly cared about him. She even leaves him shortly after he's been shot. She later admits; "I come and go with no regard for your feelings. I act as if I'm the only thing in the world that matters." Ya think?

But in all fairness Brett let her use him. He took whatever she wanted to give him and was her willing doormat. He spent half his time in fear that he'll wake up or come home from work and she'll be gone. Yes, he loved her. But after awhile he was just being a fool. There is a line between loving someone and remaining loyal to them; and allowing a person to walk all over you. And as a twist on the usual "woman apologizing to man for what he's done wrong", Brett apologizes to Torie for what she does wrong.

I just couldn't have much respect for either one of these people and by the end I didn't really care what happened to them.