TITLE: The Baby Proposition
AUTHOR: Kim Loraine
NARRATOR(S): J.F. Harding, Stella Hunter
AUDIOBOOK PLATFORM: Audible
AVAILABLE ON KU: No
PUBLISHED: 01/17/2022
GENRE: Cowboy Romance, Small Town Romance
RATING: 5/5
BLURB:
I wanted Clara the first time I saw her, but as soon as I figured out she was the local vet and would be working on my ranch, I knew I had to let her go. I put myself in the friend-zone until the night she told me she wanted to get knocked up.
There wasn’t a chance I’d let another guy get her pregnant, even if he was an anonymous donor. Not when she had me, Maverick Wilde—grade A certified Montana cowboy—right in front of her.
The arrangement was perfect. I make my donation, she gets her baby, we go back to being friends. No strings. No messy heartbreak.
Except everything changes when we decide it’ll be a lot more fun to make a direct deposit and do things the old fashioned way. That spark between us? Now it’s a blazing fire I have no desire to extinguish.
Our baby proposition just got a lot more complicated.
MY REVIEW:
This was a really delightful read/listen. Perfect to get lost in on a Monday! I chose this book as my next audiobook because the author and both narrators are going to be at Indies Invade Philly next month and I’m on a mission to read/listen to as much authors/narrators as I can before then. I started late so I don’t think I’m going to get through them all, but I’m going to try!
If you’ve followed my book blogging journey from the beginning, you know that I am a sucker for friends-to-lovers romance and this book was so stinkin’ perfect!!
Maverick and Clara have been friends since they met two years ago. As the blurb says, Maverick is attracted to Clara, but once he realized that she was going to be working on his ranch, he shut his feelings down. It isn’t until the two decide to pair up for all the weddings happening, to avoid the matchmakers, that the lines begin to blur. Then he hears about Clara’s plan to get turkey basted with someone’s swimmers and he offers himself up as tribute.
I really like the stories where the hero is the first to fall, and the one doing the pursuing and wooing. Maverick Wilde landed himself in my top book boyfriend pile with this story! I loved how he treated Clara, how he kept calling her “Darling” (J.F. Harding helped with that too), and how he kept pursuing and wooing her. Kim and J.F. Harding almost had me bawling my eyes out at work when Clara read Mav’s letter!
I really liked the side characters in this, and I think most have or will have their own book so I am definitely interested in going back and reading their stories!
This audiobook was the first book that I listened to where the narrators actually spoke their character’s lines, regardless of who was narrating that section, and I found myself completely immersed in the story because of it!
Looking forward to reading more stories from Kim Loraine and listening to more stories narrated by Stella Hunter and J.F. Harding!