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Surrogate and Wife by Emily McKay
3.0
I have joined Manali Dey, a friend on Bookstagram, for the #MillsandBoonReadathon for which we are reading 18 books, coz it's '18! This is Book 3.
Set in Georgetown, Texas; this book is about Kate Bennet who is around fourteen-weeks pregnant. She is a surrogate for her sister Beth and her husband Stewart. The same Beth who herself is eighteen-weeks along and didn't even tell Kate till then. Now, the sperm donor in Kate's case is not Beth's husband, Stewart, but his best friend, Jake, since it was highly improbable that Stewart and Beth could ever have a baby. And just like that, it is up to Jake and Kate now to decide what to do with the baby Kate is now carrying.
Jake Morgan is a firefighter turned arson investigator, while Kate is an associate district judge. She believes she doesn't have a maternal bone in her body and that Jake and her will not be good parents. Jake still offers to help her out, which she vehemently denies. To achieve his political ambitions, Judge Hatcher, Kate's boss, is using the morality card. And an unmarried mother-to-be is at the top of that list. Fearing for her job, she asks Jake to marry her, after which he moves in with her.
The text is laced with humour, and dripping with sarcasm. This book is as close to real life as it could get. And with such diverse professions, the author has taken care of keeping the story as relevant to Jake and Kate's professions as possible. While Jake reveals the truth about his parents, Kate decides to hide it; in order to make their wedding seem as real as possible. She and Beth are sisters and in spite of being the younger one, Kate is more distrustful, and stronger, of the two.
Jake fancied Kate from a long time. While he annoys the hell out of her, he also makes the most delicious of food! Not that Kate gets used to it. She avoids him like the plague. And he, for the life of him, couldn't figure out how to let him help her. The foster care system has rankled Kate, and her mother not knowing who her father exactly is has further disillusioned Kate to life in general. As happens when two strangers live together, they do tend to grow on each other. Their late night tete-a-tete is something. And when she learns to let herself go, learns to trust him, it's so sweet, especially the efforts he goes to to gain her trust. It just lacked an epilogue, and a strong conflict as to what really bugged Kate about her childhood.
P.S. I am wondering how did this become 'Vintage Desire'. It was published in 2006 only.
The cover is just perfect, conveys the relationship of Jake and Kate.
Before this, I have read [a:Emily McKay|876105|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1333563307p2/876105.jpg]'s Messina Brothers Duet ([b:Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep|2887655|Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep (Messina Brothers, #1)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471618190s/2887655.jpg|2913903] and [b:Baby Benefits|5301008|Baby Benefits (Messina Brothers, #2)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1306674250s/5301008.jpg|5368445]) and [b:The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|11535516|The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327988126s/11535516.jpg|16321934] which I loved the best. This was an okay read for me.
Set in Georgetown, Texas; this book is about Kate Bennet who is around fourteen-weeks pregnant. She is a surrogate for her sister Beth and her husband Stewart. The same Beth who herself is eighteen-weeks along and didn't even tell Kate till then. Now, the sperm donor in Kate's case is not Beth's husband, Stewart, but his best friend, Jake, since it was highly improbable that Stewart and Beth could ever have a baby. And just like that, it is up to Jake and Kate now to decide what to do with the baby Kate is now carrying.
Jake Morgan is a firefighter turned arson investigator, while Kate is an associate district judge. She believes she doesn't have a maternal bone in her body and that Jake and her will not be good parents. Jake still offers to help her out, which she vehemently denies. To achieve his political ambitions, Judge Hatcher, Kate's boss, is using the morality card. And an unmarried mother-to-be is at the top of that list. Fearing for her job, she asks Jake to marry her, after which he moves in with her.
The text is laced with humour, and dripping with sarcasm. This book is as close to real life as it could get. And with such diverse professions, the author has taken care of keeping the story as relevant to Jake and Kate's professions as possible. While Jake reveals the truth about his parents, Kate decides to hide it; in order to make their wedding seem as real as possible. She and Beth are sisters and in spite of being the younger one, Kate is more distrustful, and stronger, of the two.
Jake fancied Kate from a long time. While he annoys the hell out of her, he also makes the most delicious of food! Not that Kate gets used to it. She avoids him like the plague. And he, for the life of him, couldn't figure out how to let him help her. The foster care system has rankled Kate, and her mother not knowing who her father exactly is has further disillusioned Kate to life in general. As happens when two strangers live together, they do tend to grow on each other. Their late night tete-a-tete is something. And when she learns to let herself go, learns to trust him, it's so sweet, especially the efforts he goes to to gain her trust. It just lacked an epilogue, and a strong conflict as to what really bugged Kate about her childhood.
P.S. I am wondering how did this become 'Vintage Desire'. It was published in 2006 only.
The cover is just perfect, conveys the relationship of Jake and Kate.
Before this, I have read [a:Emily McKay|876105|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1333563307p2/876105.jpg]'s Messina Brothers Duet ([b:Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep|2887655|Baby on the Billionaire's Doorstep (Messina Brothers, #1)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1471618190s/2887655.jpg|2913903] and [b:Baby Benefits|5301008|Baby Benefits (Messina Brothers, #2)|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1306674250s/5301008.jpg|5368445]) and [b:The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|11535516|The Tycoon's Temporary Baby|Emily McKay|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327988126s/11535516.jpg|16321934] which I loved the best. This was an okay read for me.