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Secret Surrogate by Delores Fossen
4.0
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 6.
This is one genre (romantic suspense) for which I wait with bated breath. And [a:Delores Fossen|240672|Delores Fossen|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1471121575p2/240672.jpg] is a favourite since her book [b:Mommy Under Cover|2722375|Mommy Under Cover|Delores Fossen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1528501561s/2722375.jpg|2747975] which was a five-star read for me.
Thriller is my first love among all the genres, and for me, there exists a very thin line between thriller and suspense. My second love being romance, it couldn't have gotten any better than a romantic suspense. It has become my new favourite!
Set in Fall Creek, Texas, the book opens with Kylie Monroe pointing a gun at an intruder(s) and desperately waiting for the police. A former law enforcement officer herself, she is fearing more for the baby she's carrying. In comes Sheriff Lucas Creed, and she attempts to hide her pregnancy, now in the second trimester. Lucas despises her, and with reason, for something that happened three years ago, something that had made her leave her job as a deputy, Lucas's deputy. She works as a journalist now.
And one of her articles, the one on illegal and unethical surrogacy activities, exposing some very famous, but very bad people, may just have put a target on her back. Kylie already knows that Lucas hates her, but if he knew that the baby she carried was his, he would definitely hate her more. But, she had made a promise to his dying wife, to Marissa, her best friend and she had to keep it.
Told from both Kylie and Lucas's POV in the third form of narration, Lucas just has to look at her to think about the unfairness of the situation. That the woman responsible for his wife and unborn child's death was having a baby. Though he had a small consolation, that an anonymous surrogate was going to give birth to his baby in four and a half months. But when Kylie is attacked, she has to move in with him to his ranch, until the people behind it are caught. (A Texan cowboy for a hero, hell yeah!)
The author infuses humour in such a dire situation and I love her books more for it. There is so much action that it kept me on my toes. The romance, the subtle hints of attraction, is there from the beginning itself. There is so much hate between them which is sure to change into love, with time. Some morality and promises made on the deathbed can really suck. And aaah... Kylie's honesty was quite amusing to read, especially in the face of Lucas's discomfort. Kylie has this one habit when she gets nervous, and that was such a sweet addition to her character graph. It's a small place, and the way they knew each other from childhood, at least from when they were teenagers; it made the read more intimate. The story had a perfect ending.
This is one genre (romantic suspense) for which I wait with bated breath. And [a:Delores Fossen|240672|Delores Fossen|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1471121575p2/240672.jpg] is a favourite since her book [b:Mommy Under Cover|2722375|Mommy Under Cover|Delores Fossen|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1528501561s/2722375.jpg|2747975] which was a five-star read for me.
Thriller is my first love among all the genres, and for me, there exists a very thin line between thriller and suspense. My second love being romance, it couldn't have gotten any better than a romantic suspense. It has become my new favourite!
Set in Fall Creek, Texas, the book opens with Kylie Monroe pointing a gun at an intruder(s) and desperately waiting for the police. A former law enforcement officer herself, she is fearing more for the baby she's carrying. In comes Sheriff Lucas Creed, and she attempts to hide her pregnancy, now in the second trimester. Lucas despises her, and with reason, for something that happened three years ago, something that had made her leave her job as a deputy, Lucas's deputy. She works as a journalist now.
And one of her articles, the one on illegal and unethical surrogacy activities, exposing some very famous, but very bad people, may just have put a target on her back. Kylie already knows that Lucas hates her, but if he knew that the baby she carried was his, he would definitely hate her more. But, she had made a promise to his dying wife, to Marissa, her best friend and she had to keep it.
Told from both Kylie and Lucas's POV in the third form of narration, Lucas just has to look at her to think about the unfairness of the situation. That the woman responsible for his wife and unborn child's death was having a baby. Though he had a small consolation, that an anonymous surrogate was going to give birth to his baby in four and a half months. But when Kylie is attacked, she has to move in with him to his ranch, until the people behind it are caught. (A Texan cowboy for a hero, hell yeah!)
The author infuses humour in such a dire situation and I love her books more for it. There is so much action that it kept me on my toes. The romance, the subtle hints of attraction, is there from the beginning itself. There is so much hate between them which is sure to change into love, with time. Some morality and promises made on the deathbed can really suck. And aaah... Kylie's honesty was quite amusing to read, especially in the face of Lucas's discomfort. Kylie has this one habit when she gets nervous, and that was such a sweet addition to her character graph. It's a small place, and the way they knew each other from childhood, at least from when they were teenagers; it made the read more intimate. The story had a perfect ending.