Silhouette Special #1011: Friends, Lovers...and Babies!

by Joan Elliott Pickart

Ex-cop Ryan MacAllister might be drop-dead gorgeous, but he was also aloof. Deedee Hamilton knew that he would never woo a wholesome family friend like her, yet one evening, the world turned... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373240112
• ISBN13: 9780373240111
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Silhouette Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Finding true love again

This book is Book #2 in Joan's series, THE BABY BET. It centers around the MacAllister family and their friends. Every time a woman is pregnant, The Baby Bet goes into action. Everyone puts twenty dollars into a pot, and Forrest MacAllister, who is the current champion of The Baby Bet, determines not only the sex of the baby but how many babies the woman is going to have. This is usually done prior to a doctor's appointment, and when Forrest announces the news, he does so by producing stuffed toy rabbits (each rabbit representing a baby) in either blue or pink (representing the sex of the baby).Deedee Hamilton and Ryan MacAllister meet at his sister's twins' birthday party. Now Deedee and Ryan have known each other for several years, but neither have really gotten to know each other due to Ryan's cold, aloof manner (as a result of his wife being killed in an emergency room two years before). Both have deceased spouses, and both believe that they're happy with the way they've been living their lives so far. Yet it troubles Deedee seeing Ryan being so alone, so distant, so she resolves to get him to live again. They start to spend time together, and both become instantly extremely attracted to each other. (Yet they deny it and claim it's only lust.) After having a *wonderful* date together, they make love at Deedee's and the next morning agree to be friends and lovers. Nothing more, nothing else. No strings attached. They also agree to reevaluate their lives since both are secretively miserable with the current state of their lives. (Ryan had resigned from the police force after his wife's death. Deedee wants to start a family, but is a widow.)FRIENDS, LOVERS...AND BABIES! was a truly enjoyable book about two people finding each other and deciding to live again. Funny, lighthearted, and a quick read. I got through it in two days. The fastest I've ever read a category romance. I was a little annoyed at how Deedee and Ryan "muse" a lot over things, and how Ryan was constantly "running his hands down his face." I *almost* put down the book when Ryan confronted Deedee after finding out she was pregnant. I was almost too uncomfortable with the accusations he was throwing at her. Especially the comment how she just used him for "stud service." But, overall, a wonderful read.

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Deedee Hamilton is introduced to us in the first of the Baby Bet series books-Angels and Elves. Deedee runs the bookstore and is best friends with Andrea and Jillian. Andrea's brother Ryan is a cop and at the beginning of the book we discover that his wife is tragically killed and two years later he is still secluding himself from life. He has retired from the police force, never dates, and hardly participates in family functions. Deedee is a life long friend of the MacAllister clan and wants to help Ryan. Deedee, herself, is a widow and feels she can help Ryan. This is a beautiful love story of two people waking up and deciding to live again with the help of each other and family. The great thing is if you are reading the Baby Bet series than you will be happy to know that the rest of the MacAllister clan is involved in this book as well. It is just a fun series.