Baby, Don't Go [Mass Market Paperback]

Susan Andersen (Author)

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Setting: San Francisco

Sensuality: 8

Security expert Daisy Parker once spent an unforgettable night of passion with society photographer Nick Coltrane, but he disappeared the next morning, taking her heart with him. It's nine years later when Nick walks back into Daisy's life to hire her services as a bodyguard. Daisy's still angry at him, but she really needs the money, so she takes the job and moves in with Nick to protect him 24 hours a day. Unfortunately for Daisy, Nick hasn't told her quite all the truth about the trouble he's in and protecting him from thugs gets really complicated, really fast. But keeping Nick alive and healthy pales in comparison to the difficulty Daisy has with guarding her heart from him. Beneath her justifiable anger, she's as attracted to Nick as she was nine years before and Nick shows all the signs of wanting her just as badly. If these two can manage to stay alive, will Nick find a way to convince Daisy that this time their future includes marriage and happy ever after?

Baby, Don't Go is a fast train of suspense, comedy, lust, and love. The heroine's tough-as-nails outer shell conceals a vulnerable interior that the hero, macho though he is, understands perfectly. No one does romantic comedy with a twist of suspense quite like Andersen. --Lois Faye Dyer

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"Baby, Don't Go" is a sexy, racy, and all-around good-time read." -- - The Oakland Press, MI

"Baby, Don't Go" is a sexy, racy, and all-around good-time read." -- The Oakland Press, MI

"Baby, Don't Go" is a sexy, racy, and all-around good-time read." - The Oakland Press, MI -- The Oakland Press, MI

"Baby, Don't Go" is a sexy, racy, and all-around good-time read."6 6 -- The Oakland Press, MI

"Lively and fun!" -- -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips

"Sizzling, snappy, sexy, fun." -- -- Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Avon; Reprint edition (May 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380807122
• ISBN-13: 978-0380807123
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #93,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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109 of 115 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great BABY book by Susan!, April 27, 2000

By	pontmarie (SF Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby, Don't Go (Mass Market Paperback)

As a wedding reception winds down at the ritzy Mark Hopkins hotel inSan Francisco, nineteen-year-old Daisy Parker loses her virginity toNick Coltrane, her former stepbrother. Unfortunately, the haze ofpleasure vanishes as Nick casually gets dressed and recants all the love words he fed Daisy, then takes off, leaving her hurt, humiliated, and disillusioned.

Nine years later, it all comes back to haunt her when Nick, now a famous San Francisco photographer, seeks Daisy's services as a security specialist. The former Oakland PD officer wants nothing to do with him, but since her security business is barely off the ground and she can't in good faith, leave Nick's safety up in the air, she reluctantly takes the assignment and moves in with him....

As Daisy struggles to keep Nick in one piece, she becomes part of his world, finding out that the man she's tried to forget for nearly a decade is not the womanizing monster she's made him out to be, while Nick gains more and more respect for the woman who keeps saving his life....

Daisy was a kick to get to know. She is strong and courageous, knows she's damn good at what she does, and lets Nick know it all the time. At the same time, she is so vulnerable where he is concerned that I couldn't help but feel for her. Even when Nick is telling that he loves her (both in and out of bed this time), Daisy can't let herself dream that he means it and vows that he will not break her heart. Which, of course, is just what he does.

Daisy is not the only one who's tried to forget that night nine years ago. Nick, confident that he'd gotten Daisy out of his system, is bowled over by the cocky woman who fires his blood and can flip him over and send him flying across the room. He realizes he should have told her sooner the truth about Douglass and the photographs, and never mind goons or his work. His world really comes crashing down when Daisy leaves him.

The secondary characters, including Nick's sister Maureen and her husband, and Daisy's friends, add to the plot and become integral parts of the story. The only parts of the book where I had to invoke suspension of disbelief were whenever J. Fitzgerald Douglass appeared; he went just a little over the top in his mafia-boss impersonation, and the fact that a lot of circumstances had to align properly in order for the picture in question to be that explosive.

Otherwise, this book is pure Andersen, the chemistry between Nick and Daisy is red-hot, the love scenes even more so, and the language a little raw. Suffice it to say that when Nick and Daisy make comments regarding "the thinker" and "the Big Guy" they're not exactly referring to another person in the book. So far, I have liked all of Susan Andersen's books and this was no exception. And it's set in San Francisco - what more could you ask for? END

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of romance's stars, April 29, 2000

By	Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews (#1 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Baby, Don't Go (Mass Market Paperback)

Though Security Specialist Daisy Parker desperately needs the money, she wonders if she is making a huge mistake by agreeing to guard photographer Nick Coltrane. Her mother and his father shared a short ugly marriage, but worse was that night of love they shared before he dumped her as a one-night stand almost a decade ago.

During a wedding of the rich and famous, Nick inadvertently took a picture that prominently shows future ambassador Douglass in a compromising position with a female that is not his wife. Douglass sends thugs to obtain the picture, but Nick prefers to sell it to the media in order to obtain cash to help his financially strapped sister. Daisy reluctantly agrees to guard Nick, but neither knew their sexual attraction would explode into a deep love for one another.

With her "baby" novels (see BABY, I'M YOURS and BE MY BABY), Susan Anderson has become a fan favorite for her rousing romantic romps. Her latest tale, BABY, DON'T GO, contains the usual humor, wit, and excitement expected in one of Ms. Anderson's books. The shared past of the lead couple makes their present sizzle with discord yet cannot stop their growing attraction to each other. The support cast adds cause and humor to an entertaining fun to read contemporary romance.

Harriet Klausner

57 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Romance and a Comedy?, May 11, 2000

By	L. Ponder "linsfolly" (Hamilton, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Baby, Don't Go (Mass Market Paperback)

Nick and Daisy had a brief relationship in the past. He took Daisy's virginity, breaks her heart?, and leaves without any plesantries. Nine years later, Nick hires Daisy as his bodyguard. And, the fireworks are renewed.

Baby Don't Go was not a good read, for me. I had problems with the stereotypes. Daisy's a security specialist, wears combat boots, cuts her own hair with manicure scissors, skips makeup. Nick as a one-time rich, playboy-type, calls Daisy Blondie, etc.; and, he has nicknames for certain parts of his own person. Daisy's male secretary, Reggie, and Reggie's friends meet a certain stereotype also. Then there's the "goons", and the pillar-of-society bad guy. Maybe they are all meant to be funny, but the humor was beyond me.

Love/sex scenes, to me, seemed long, detailed, boring. I found myself skimming them. I just didn't see the relationship develop. I didn't see where the feelings Daisy and Nick had for each other, came from. Neither one, were characters I liked, or related to.

The plot, was secondary to relationships. The secondary characters, Mo (Nick's sister), and her husband Reid, were the reason I kept reading the book. And, Ms. Andersen's writing has a certain flow, that kept me reading, also. I just wish I had enjoyed the story, as much as the writing.