wonderful family drama

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	• Be My Babies (Harlequin Superromance) Kathryn Shay Harlequin, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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wonderful family drama

Her husband may be affluent and a member of high society, but Derek Wakefield fails to grow up as drugs and now women supersede family obligations especially now that his wife is pregnant. Expecting twins and no help from her addicted Peter Pan mate, Lily Wakefield leaves New York City to visit her mother's hometown Fairview, New York. There she hopes her maternal grandfather Gil Gardner, owner of the local newspaper Sentinel, whom she has never met, will help her.

In Fairview, Lily meets newspaper editor Simon McCarthy and his daughter Jenny, who calls Gil "Grandpa Gil". Soon she meets a stunned Gil who feels guilt for allowing his wife to run off their pregnant daughter Camy when she needed them. He knows Camy died, but was unaware that she had the child, his granddaughter. He needs her to stay and she wants to as her mom only had kind words for her father. Meanwhile Simon fears she has come to take over the paper as he understands how thick blood can be. Still he is attracted to the pregnant woman who might replace him as the editor after she gives birth.

This is a wonderful family drama with likable characters as Gil and Lily get second chances. Simon and Lily are a terrific pairing and love for each other and for Gil brings them together. Although a subplot involving Derek's vengeful upper crust mother using blackmail seems over the top especially the extortion gamut, fans will enjoy this fine homecoming romance.

Harriet Klausner

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The book has it all!

When Lily Wakefield discovers she is pregnant she is excited and races home to tell her husband. She never gets the chance, when she walks in and he is using cocaine, he becomes irate and smacks her. She waits until night and leaves him, telling no one where she is going. Lily has no family; her mom left home as an unwed mother at sixteen, and Lily has never even seen her grandparents.

Lily finds herself needing family support more than ever, and goes home to her mom's father who is still living. Having lost her mother years before, she only has the stories her mom told to help her decide he is her best hope. When Lily arrives in Fairview, her grandfather is glad to meet her, and wants to help. Others are not quite so ready to trust her story and to accept her.

Kathryn Shay has written one of the best novels this reader has read this year, maybe in the past two years. BE MY BABIES is emotional and filled with love - and babies! Lily's twins feel real, this reader could almost hear them crying in the background while she read. Ms. Shay has written a novel that brought tears to this reader's eyes, and joy to her heart when Lily and Simon made peace and found their happily ever after.

Many scenes in BE MY BABIES stand out, leaving this reader with memories that feel almost real. When Lily attends her grandfather's funeral, knowing she has lost the family she found, it was heartbreaking, even worse was when Lily felt she had to return to her husband and let him have a second chance. Yet when Simon stands up for her against the in-laws that want to take her babies, it is a time for rejoicing - if he can help her win custody. This novel has it all. The twists and turns, the ups and downs emotionally make this a read to be savored.

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