Book One of Harlequin's Expecting! Series, this one is about Victoria Brown. She is in Tunisia (read for the first time, a Harlequin book set in this country), and is at a doctor's appointment where she finds out she's almost three months pregnant. She fled England, from her husband Zac Harding, and the other woman, Gina Rossellini. She's twenty to his thirty-five, her marriage conveniently arranged by her socialite mother, Coral Chigley-Brown, who considered Victoria only an intrusion, and who is a vicious, heartless mother.

She took refuge in her childhood friend's brother, William Howard's home in Tunisia the same night she had to leave for honeymoon after getting to know about Zac's betrayal. And now Zac thinks she betrayed him with William.

This is one weird read! He doesn't trust her, she doesn't trust him. They both mistake the other's silences for more betrayal. And the cycle never stops, leading them to miss out on her pregnancy. Though they do bump into each other, deliberately from time to time, especially now that they are both back in England.

When Zac opened up about his past to Tory, yes - that's his nickname for her, only his - it was such a beautiful scene. And I completely sympathise with Victoria too, how parental love, or the lack thereof, can drive one insane from within.

The book picks up steam from mid-way. And it had a beautiful ending, which included the birth of their baby boy, James Zachary.

P.S. Zac's trademark phrase is: for crying out loud.