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Comeback Cove, Canada #5
First Came Baby
The perfect reason to stay?
Kate Hebert's fling with Jackson Boone wasn't supposed to be anything more than good fun. When she got pregnant, they married to please her dying grandmother, and Boone headed home to Peru. Now he's in Comeback Cove to arrange their divorce and meet his baby son. But when Kate injures her ankle, Boone is forced to stick around--and step up his dad game.
A little hands-on healing makes Kate realize how great a real marriage with Boone could be. But family had never been Boone's priority, and as far as he's concerned, Kate deserves the life she's always dreamed of. Seems they've done everything backward, and now Boone faces the toughest choice he's ever made...
Kate Hebert's fling with Jackson Boone wasn't supposed to be anything more than good fun. When she got pregnant, they married to please her dying grandmother, and Boone headed home to Peru. Now he's in Comeback Cove to arrange their divorce and meet his baby son. But when Kate injures her ankle, Boone is forced to stick around--and step up his dad game.
A little hands-on healing makes Kate realize how great a real marriage with Boone could be. But family had never been Boone's priority, and as far as he's concerned, Kate deserves the life she's always dreamed of. Seems they've done everything backward, and now Boone faces the toughest choice he's ever made...
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published March 6, 2018
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March 3, 2018
Another Comeback Cove, Canada tale in which we meet Kate Hebert and Jackson Boone. They had one of those encounters that leaves her pregnant. To keep Kate's grandmother happy, they marry, even though Boone has no intention of staying in Comeback Cove. His heart and his home is in Peru, or so he thinks. But now that baby he helped make is five months old and it's time to go through the divorce he and Kate agreed on before he took off months earlier.
It's a great plan, but there's a problem: Kate is no longer sure she wants to end their marriage now that Boone is back. He's certain he's a bad bet as a father, though Kate trusts him with their son. So... what to do? Kate sets out to convince Boone to stay. All is going swimmingly until an episode that threatens Jamie provides proof to Boone that a baby's safety is not something he can guarantee.
How the family that has claimed him years earlier helps him to see that the family he needs to be with is back in Comeback Cove makes for a satisfying read while also solving the mystery of all those Prohibition-era bottles found under the porch.
It's a great plan, but there's a problem: Kate is no longer sure she wants to end their marriage now that Boone is back. He's certain he's a bad bet as a father, though Kate trusts him with their son. So... what to do? Kate sets out to convince Boone to stay. All is going swimmingly until an episode that threatens Jamie provides proof to Boone that a baby's safety is not something he can guarantee.
How the family that has claimed him years earlier helps him to see that the family he needs to be with is back in Comeback Cove makes for a satisfying read while also solving the mystery of all those Prohibition-era bottles found under the porch.
January 21, 2019
Kate and Boone meet at a convention, have a short, intensive affair, and end up pregnant. They get married, to please her dying grandmother, agreeing that it will be temporary. Boone goes back to Peru, knowing he is not father material. They stay in touch through Skype so he can see how baby Jamie is growing. When he comes back so they can get divorced, they try to keep things platonic, but that doesn’t last long. Kate realizes she loves him and decides she doesn’t want the divorce, but Boone, having been raised in foster care or by a mother who didn’t want him, thinks he can’t love or be part of a family. So he goes back to Peru. I really liked this story, the characters were very realistic.
February 12, 2018
Such a sweet book! This might be my favorite of hers. Cute and funny with characters that leapt off the page!
May 24, 2021
Nerdy, cute and Canadian. Loved it.
January 4, 2019
Unfortunately this book pushed a lot of buttons for me. Irresponsible couple gets pregnant, shotgun wedding, absentee parent, adultery (even if it's only hinted at), and just plain boneheadedness on behalf of the PoV characters. Let's tackle these issues.
Irresponsible people drive me nuts. I get it, children happen when you mess around. But I can't deal with children that happen because the couple didn't use protection. It's a plot premise that drives me batty because there are a million and one ways to prevent baby-making, and these two obviously weren't mature enough to use ANY of them. This leads to point two.
Shotgun weddings drive me even more nuts. Getting married is as big a thing as an unplanned pregnancy, and just because an important person in your life is dying is NOT a good enough reason to get married. Especially when you have only known the person for a couple weeks, and more especially when you KNOW that person is leaving the country indefinitely in an even shorter period of time. Marriages of convenience are so passe.
Absentee parents... I GET that Boone (and WHY is he never called by his first name? THAT bothered me too...) was only in town to visit, and decided to have a fling... but to not even consider coming back home when you've a) impregnated someone, and then b) married your baby momma is just another bad decision on top of a bad decision that was on top of a third bad decision.
Adultery... I realise it was just hinted at in one or two sentences, but the fact that he was not even a month married, and had a pregnant sort-of wife he was leaving in the lurch (and never did support in all the time he was in Peru mind you... but I'll not even get into THAT kettle of fish), and then has a fling with a stewardess on his way back to Peru? I can't even with that one...
And now on to the boneheadedness... I've touched on a bunch, but let's look at a couple more.
Oh, and here's something I forgot to mention when I first wrote this review but it popped into my head tonight for some ungodly reason so I'm updating the review... A person is NOT going to swear or think in a second language. Especially not when they've only known that language for a year or two. Listen to anyone. They are going to immediately reach for their first language (obviously in this case it would be English) and not Spanish. So all that shit with Boone exclaiming in Spanish is the author trying to show off their Rosetta Stone purchase...
The only thing I actually liked about this book was the barely there subplot about the hidden treasure.
Irresponsible people drive me nuts. I get it, children happen when you mess around. But I can't deal with children that happen because the couple didn't use protection. It's a plot premise that drives me batty because there are a million and one ways to prevent baby-making, and these two obviously weren't mature enough to use ANY of them. This leads to point two.
Shotgun weddings drive me even more nuts. Getting married is as big a thing as an unplanned pregnancy, and just because an important person in your life is dying is NOT a good enough reason to get married. Especially when you have only known the person for a couple weeks, and more especially when you KNOW that person is leaving the country indefinitely in an even shorter period of time. Marriages of convenience are so passe.
Absentee parents... I GET that Boone (and WHY is he never called by his first name? THAT bothered me too...) was only in town to visit, and decided to have a fling... but to not even consider coming back home when you've a) impregnated someone, and then b) married your baby momma is just another bad decision on top of a bad decision that was on top of a third bad decision.
Adultery... I realise it was just hinted at in one or two sentences, but the fact that he was not even a month married, and had a pregnant sort-of wife he was leaving in the lurch (and never did support in all the time he was in Peru mind you... but I'll not even get into THAT kettle of fish), and then has a fling with a stewardess on his way back to Peru? I can't even with that one...
And now on to the boneheadedness... I've touched on a bunch, but let's look at a couple more.
Oh, and here's something I forgot to mention when I first wrote this review but it popped into my head tonight for some ungodly reason so I'm updating the review... A person is NOT going to swear or think in a second language. Especially not when they've only known that language for a year or two. Listen to anyone. They are going to immediately reach for their first language (obviously in this case it would be English) and not Spanish. So all that shit with Boone exclaiming in Spanish is the author trying to show off their Rosetta Stone purchase...
The only thing I actually liked about this book was the barely there subplot about the hidden treasure.
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March 1, 2018Miniseries: Comeback Cove, Canada
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