Good Husband Material

by Kara Lennox

Book Overview

Having His Baby... Twenty-Five Years Later It starts when Natalie Briggs runs into her ex-husband, Josh, at their high school reunion. A romantic dance leads to a kiss...and a kiss to a blissful night of lovemaking. Then Natalie gets the shocking news. She's finally going to have Josh's child--twenty-five years better-late-than-never Her adopted daughter is excited about becoming a big sister. Josh's teenage sons don't know what to think. And her...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373751990
• ISBN13: 9780373751990
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Harlequin American Romance
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful story of lost and found love

They'd been the hottest number in Camden High. Natalie Briggs and Josh Carlson had married soon afterwards--over the opposition of his parents. They'd known what they were doing, known they were destined to spend their lives together, known they could create a perfect family. But something had gone wrong--no matter how hard they'd tried, or how often, children didn't come. Eventually, the stresses took their toll and the marriage had broken apart. Natalie has moved on with her life, adopted a wonderful daughter, and built a career as a neo-natal ICU nurse. Still, she can't deny the heart-flutter she feels whenever she thinks of her ex-husband. The high school reunion was supposed to be harmless. Natalie would get together with a few old friends, have a couple of margaritas, dance, and generally remember old times. Her best friend, Melissa, had promised that Josh wouldn't be there. Except Melissa had been playing matchmaker games and had instead made sure that Josh would be there. Putting Natalie and Josh in the same room is like putting a match to gasoline. Their old passion, that special feeling of first love, never really went away and the two don't even make it back to Josh's hotel room before making love. At least, Natalie thinks, they don't have to worry about birth control. Except... Natalie has made her own life, and it's a life she enjoys. But she owes it to Josh to let him know he's going to be a father. She won't demand anything--a baby is a gift she never thought she'd receive. But Josh insists on being a part of the baby's life, demands that Natalie give up her life and move to Houston where he can see his child. If only, Natalie decides, he were half so anxious to see her. Author Kara Lennox spins a deeply emotional story of lost and rediscovered love. Who doesn't remember their first great high school love, their first real kiss, their first lovemaking? Who doesn't wonder how things would have worked out if they hadn't moved on? By providing an emotional justification for their break, Lennox leaves her characters in a situation where they never really could recover from their breakup, raising the emotional stakes even higher. Natalie's adoptive daughter, Mary, provides a reflection of that same high school angst and emotion from the other side, providing both another view and adding to the emotional conflict because Mary is used to having Natalie all to herself--and isn't about to let some man, especially a man who's hurt her mother before, waltz into their lives.

engaging second chance at love contemporary romance

In Camden, Texas Natalie Briggs returns home for the high school reunion in which she never expected her former husband, Houston big shot lawyer Josh to attend. Twenty years ago they divorced one another and moved on with their lives. Now they share a dance for old time's sake, which leads to a kiss and to a night of lovemaking before each return to their respective lives. However, the last time they spent several years together, but they never had children not for a lack of trying. This time fate gives them quite an ironic spin when Natalie becomes pregnant. Her adopted daughter is euphoric his two teenage sons undecided, but Natalie and Josh decide they will raise the baby jointly. However, spending time together they begin to fall in love for the second time. GOOD HUSBAND MATERIAL is an engaging second chance at love contemporary romance. The lead couple is an interesting pairing as they work on difficult schedules that do not jive almost as hard as falling in love again. Although their children seem too perfect even when they have doubts, contemporary fans will enjoy Kara Lennox's fine Texas romance. Harriet Klausner