The Christmas Baby

The Redfish Chronicles #6

by Eve Gaddy

LIFE WAS TOO SWEET TO SETTLE DOWN ...

It was a single guy's dream. Brian Kincaid's job took him all over the world and he got to sample women the way other people sampled exotic cuisines. Until DNA tests and a ten-month-old orphan turned him into the diaper-toting dad he'd never planned on being.

Luckily, Faith McClain was perfect for the job of nanny. With her in charge, Brian could go back to being the freewheeling bachelor, no strings attached. Except he wasn't at all sure that the perfect nanny was what he wanted. Maybe this Christmas he wanted a lover and a wife to go with that baby under the tree?

Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Christmas

282 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published November 6, 2007

About the author

Eve Gaddy is the award winning, national bestselling author of forty novels and novellas.

Eve 's books have won and been nominated for awards from Romantic Times, Golden Quill, Bookseller’s Best, Holt Medallion, Texas Gold, Daphne Du Maurier and more. She was nominated for a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Innovative Series romance as well as winning the 2008 Romantic Times Career Achievement award for Series Storyteller of the year. Eve’s books have sold over a million copies worldwide and been published in several languages and many foreign countries.

Eve’s writing career began when she was in search of the perfect job and a friend challenged her to write a novel. Naturally, she thought of romance, since that is one of her favorite things to read.

Eve loves her family, spring and fall in east Texas, the Colorado mountains, dogs, chocolate, books, and electronics. She enjoys cooking except when she is creating, and has been known to tell her husband that is what takeout was created for.

Eve also loves a happy ending. That's why she writes romance.

Reviews

[SuperWendy]

I'm DNF'ing this at Chapter 5. I just wasn't feeling it. The hero is kind of gross and (entirely possible I'm reading too much into it) day care comes off like some sort of bogeyman (the heroine's kid keeps getting sick and it causes her to lose her job). Also the hero is a player who doesn't know the first thing about kids, but recognizes that the heroine, now his nanny, needs "time to herself" away from the kids and arranges it. So kind of a gross player on one hand, woke about women/caregiver issues on the other? I got whiplash. This is shaping up to be "meh" or "ugh" for me - so I'm tapping out.

[Cherry-Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a very silly book that just didn't add up. Either different persons edited or wrote the book without reading what the other said. As a result I constantly had to go looking moving through the pages for explanation as if this was a worthy piece of non-fiction. While I understand it is a work of fiction at least Miss Eve, try not to offend our sensibilities. There was that overdone scene when Faith was abandoned at the dive bar - didn't she walk with her cell phone? She had one because not just one day later she's using it. Then these extended shopping trips that made little sense for the time awarded and then Brian's "in luuuvvvee" scenes were totally bogus....and this chatty thing about everybody being in your business. Is he a man or a boy to be revealing having sex with someone that everybody knows and this thing about such faithful churchgoers but everyone seemingly sanctioning this living together thing....I need to stop. I'm as liberal as they come but please don't be hypocrite. Silly read...and not a good use of time.

[Flo Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Building a family together

What a lovely ending to something that could have been disastrous. Faith is a single mother and Brian had just found out he a 10 month old son. Employing Faith with her daughter, Lily, to be his nanny look after his son, Will was the best thing Brian could have done. They discovered they were perfectly matched and were able to build on that foundation for their happily ever after.

[Moey17 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charming seasonal read, the protagonists were engaging, the romance sweet.

[Michelle]

The Christmas Baby
Eve Gaddy
Harlequin Super Romance
copyright: 2007
isbn: 0-373-71457-2

Life was too sweet to settle down...

It was a single guy's dream. Brian Kincaid's job took him all over the world and he got to sample women the way other people sampled exotic cusines. Until DNA tests and a ten-month-old orphan turned him into the diaper-toting dad he'd never planned on being.

Luckily, Faith McClain was perfect for the job of nanny. With her in charge, Brian could go back to being the freewheeling bachelor, no strings attached. Except he wasn't all that sure that the perfect nanny was what he wanted. Maybe this Christmas he wanted a lover and a wife to go with that baby under the tree?

[Gemma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very sweet and heartwarming. I liked that there were no stupid misunderstandings; they actually discussed things like rational adults. All the characters were likeable, including the kids.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

so romantic. A great Harlequin Super Romance, thoroughly enjoyable.

[Nothing Like A Good Book!!!! wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just loved this holiday read...