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MILLIONAIRE’S CALCULATED BABY BID – Laura Wright
No Ring Required, Book 1
Silhouette Desire #1828
ISBN-13: 978-0-373-76828-8
ISBN-10: 0-373-76828-1
October 2007
Contemporary Series Romance

Minneapolis, Minnesota – Present Day

Mary Kelley’s father is in trouble with the law, and the only person who can help him is the man her father stole from, Ethan Curtis. When Ethan presents a plan to drop the charges, but in exchange Mary must bear a child with him, she is caught between a rock and a hard place. Help her father…and sleep with the enemy? She agrees, and when it comes time to pay up, Ethan forces her to make a baby the old-fashioned way, by sleeping together.

Ethan grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, scorned by those like the Kelley family. His plan is to have a baby by one of those blue-blooded snobs and make them accept him. Ethan admires Mary for her hard work and can’t help but desire her. He gets his wish, Mary in his bed and the hope for the baby he wants. And if it does succeed, can he walk away from Mary and take their child? A stubborn couple may have to learn a word foreign to them: compromise.

The MILLIONAIRE’S CALCULATED BABY BID opens with Ethan and Mary working on making the baby a reality, bringing readers literally into the bedroom with them. Of course, we don’t really know Mary or Ethan at this point, but in the next few chapters, we discover two characters shaped by their childhood who are unwilling to open up to the other, even though it’s quite obvious they’re attracted. Mary has spent most of her life protecting her father, even from her mother’s blue-blooded family. She feels Ethan acquired her family’s business right out from under their feet, making the arrogant bachelor number one on their hate list. Yet, there is something about him that makes her body tingle with desire, unable to resist him. Ethan just wants to prove he’s just as good as the born-to-the-money rich, even if deep down, he can’t get rid of his inner demons.

Mary and her partners, Olivia and Tess, run a wife for hire company, which specializes in parties, and are part of the trio of tales that comprise the No Ring Required series. Next up is Olivia’s story, and I can’t wait to see what Laura Wright has in store for her.

A man on the fringes of society calculating to enter the fold by siring a child, but who ends up falling in love with the mother of his child, makes this an enchanting tale. Run out today to grab your copy of a MILLIONAIRE’S CALCULATED BABY BID.

Patti Fischer