A twenty-five-year-old widow Lauren Bradley, three months pregnant, is at the Donatelli Charity Ball. Paolo Donatelli is the father and hence has the right to know. Paolo - who was Ryan Bradley's best friend. He comes across as someone who's very critical of backgrounds. Accompanying in the party is Isabella Nutini, whom he plans to make his second wife, his first being a 'mixed-breed American', who duped him with someone else's child.

He's contemptuous of Lauren, while she is full of guilt about the activities they engaged on the night before her husband's death was announced in the morning papers. They marry for the baby, and then his work takes precedence, and she again becomes depressed, and the resentment grows.

The book is written in such an interesting way, from the first page itself, I can't seem to find words to define it. Without even being alive, I could just imagine what an interesting character Mamie (Lauren's Grandma) would have been.

He was a man of very deep emotions and controlling them was a daily struggle.

Now that's something you don't get to read. The male MCs have emotions but, it's usually revealed much later on. Here, it's in the beginning only. Though together with his airs about the proper family name, it gets a little irritating.

The way she had pressed her face into his hand like a cat seeking more petting was still unsettling him.

Dani Collin's writing always makes me swoon. Especially here where she makes the heroine give an impassioned speech on not being a doormat (though she does appear to be timid) and the hero looks like a fool in front of the heroine, instead of the be all and end all Harlequin heroes usually are.

The funniest thing was when like a bolt of lightning, realisation struck Paolo that the baby was his. It has a hilarious ending too, I mean an epilogue. Bwahahahahahaha...

P.S. They got the heroine's hair on the cover right! And I don't know why that makes me so happy. Haha!