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The Unexpected Baby
The baby secret!
Elena Nolan was deeply in love with her gorgeous brand-new husband. Jed had swept her off her feet, and the day she'd promised to love, honour and cherish him had been the happiest of her life. When Elena discovered only a week into their honeymoon that she was pregnant, it should have completed her joy. But there was a secret surrounding her unborn baby. Elena knew that soon she would have to tell Jed but would their marriage survive the truth?
She's sexy, successful and PREGNANT!
Elena Nolan was deeply in love with her gorgeous brand-new husband. Jed had swept her off her feet, and the day she'd promised to love, honour and cherish him had been the happiest of her life. When Elena discovered only a week into their honeymoon that she was pregnant, it should have completed her joy. But there was a secret surrounding her unborn baby. Elena knew that soon she would have to tell Jed but would their marriage survive the truth?
She's sexy, successful and PREGNANT!
147 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 1999
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Diana Hamilton
304 books76 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
Diana Hamilton was born in a English town. Wanting to be a country child, her imagination came into play at an early age, transforming a neighbor’s tree into a forest, a hole in a stone wall into a gingerbread house, a gas puddle into a fairyland, complete with mountains, lakes and flower meadows. She loathed housework but made to do her share, to lessen the boredom, she told herself stories, in a very loud voice, featuring princesses and flower gardens, discovering that telling herself stories was almost as good as reading them in a book.
She loathed school with an equal passion and got through it by pretending to be somewhere else. Even so she left grammar school with respectable grades... And was sent to art college when she wanted to study to be a vet. This was nowhere as bad as it had seemed because it was there, at age 18, she first saw Peter. He had returned from two years’ active service in Korea to resume his studies, and Diana immediately fell in love with him.
Gaining a degree in advertising copywriting, Diana worked as a copywriter and married Peter. They moved to a remote part of Wales after the birth of their second child, Paul, when their daughter, Rebecca, was three years old. There, Diana enjoyed pony trekking and walking in the mountains; and her third child, Andrew, was born. Itchy feet brought them back to England to the beautiful county of Shropshire four years later and they have been there ever since, gradually restoring the rambling Elizabethan manor that Diana gave her heart to on sight, creating a garden out of a wilderness of nettles, brambles and old bedsteads.
In the mid-'70s Diana took up her pen again to write stories to read to her three children at bedtime. These were never offered for publication but the bug had bitten. Over the next 10 years she combined writing over 30 novels, published by Robert Hale of London, with bringing up her children, gardening and cooking for the restaurant of a local inn—a wonderful excuse to avoid the dreaded housework! In 1987 Diana realized her dearest ambition—the publication of her first Mills & Boon romance, Song in a Strange Land. She had come home. And that feeling persists to this day as, around 30 Harlequin/Mills & Boon romantic novels late, she was still in love with the genre.
Sadly, Diana Hamilton passed away on May 3, 2009, at her home in Shropshire, surrounded by her family. She will be sorely missed by her fans and everyone at Mills & Boon/Harlequin
Diana Hamilton was born in a English town. Wanting to be a country child, her imagination came into play at an early age, transforming a neighbor’s tree into a forest, a hole in a stone wall into a gingerbread house, a gas puddle into a fairyland, complete with mountains, lakes and flower meadows. She loathed housework but made to do her share, to lessen the boredom, she told herself stories, in a very loud voice, featuring princesses and flower gardens, discovering that telling herself stories was almost as good as reading them in a book.
She loathed school with an equal passion and got through it by pretending to be somewhere else. Even so she left grammar school with respectable grades... And was sent to art college when she wanted to study to be a vet. This was nowhere as bad as it had seemed because it was there, at age 18, she first saw Peter. He had returned from two years’ active service in Korea to resume his studies, and Diana immediately fell in love with him.
Gaining a degree in advertising copywriting, Diana worked as a copywriter and married Peter. They moved to a remote part of Wales after the birth of their second child, Paul, when their daughter, Rebecca, was three years old. There, Diana enjoyed pony trekking and walking in the mountains; and her third child, Andrew, was born. Itchy feet brought them back to England to the beautiful county of Shropshire four years later and they have been there ever since, gradually restoring the rambling Elizabethan manor that Diana gave her heart to on sight, creating a garden out of a wilderness of nettles, brambles and old bedsteads.
In the mid-'70s Diana took up her pen again to write stories to read to her three children at bedtime. These were never offered for publication but the bug had bitten. Over the next 10 years she combined writing over 30 novels, published by Robert Hale of London, with bringing up her children, gardening and cooking for the restaurant of a local inn—a wonderful excuse to avoid the dreaded housework! In 1987 Diana realized her dearest ambition—the publication of her first Mills & Boon romance, Song in a Strange Land. She had come home. And that feeling persists to this day as, around 30 Harlequin/Mills & Boon romantic novels late, she was still in love with the genre.
Sadly, Diana Hamilton passed away on May 3, 2009, at her home in Shropshire, surrounded by her family. She will be sorely missed by her fans and everyone at Mills & Boon/Harlequin
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May 12, 2019
Re The Unexpected Baby - Diana Hamilton gets the number 7 slot in the Expecting series. DH is serving up some stork anticipation with a twist.
The h in this one is a famous author and writes best sellers that get made into movies for lots and lots of money. She had a very bad first marriage to a lyin', cheatin, credit card cloning slime pustule and after she dumped the slime swiller out of her life when he went to prison, she moved to Spain and started a new life.
Her mother is a distant bovine snot particle, but the h has managed to build a successful life on her own. Because the h was getting older - she is over 30- and had no plans to ever remarry, the h decided to have a baby with the H's younger, dashing roving reporter brother.
The h actually met the brother first and they developed a very nice camaraderie, when the brother suggested they use a clinic for artificial insemination. The h had been wanting a child for a while and the H's brother had no interest in a wife or family, yet he wanted to leave a genetic legacy.
The h thought this was a very sensible suggestion, there was no hint of sexual interest or romance on either side, so the H's brother made his contribution and the h went round and received it in clinic a little while later.
A few weeks after this, the H's brother was reporting in a war zone and died. The H and h met for the first time at the funeral and there was a very whirlwind romance. The H did his best to sweep the h off her feet and used the excuse that his brother talked about her all the time to woo her into a very hasty marriage.
When the book starts, the H and h are blissfully happy and have only been married about a week, then the h finds out she is baking a little bun, the only problem is that the wrong guy provided the yeast.
The H knows the h has been married and he is certainly no unicorn groomer himself. The reader could also reasonably believe that the H might have thought the h and his brother were lovers prior to his death, as the H presumes upon his brother's in depth acquaintanceship with the h several times during his pursuit of her. However the H was adamant that both of their pasts never needed to be discussed - the H clearly states he doesn't want to know.
So it comes as a huge shock when the h tells the H she is pregnant and his brother is the father and he gets super hostile and storms off. The h explains the whole clinic thing really badly and the H runs off fuming and being nasty about marrying his brother's sloppy seconds.
The h repeatedly tries to explain about the artificial insemination, but the H doesn't believe her and goes off about gold diggers and harlots and being made to carry the load instead of the baby's father.
(Which was utterly ludicrous, the h was fine with single parenting and has plenty of money of her own and a stable career and a home. The big thing for the H was that he thinks she slept with his brother, so I never understood why she just did not show him her records from the clinic who did the procedure and prove she had insemination.*sigh* )
The h is too pathetic to smack the H with a cast iron skillet and make him listen to her, so we get four chapters of the H being a nematode parasite insisting that the h pretend to be his adoring wife in front of his idiotic mum and her snot snarfing mother. The h is having a whiny mopey moment and again fails to just get on with taking care of herself.
Eventually the h wins a prestigious award and the H can't seem to resist trying to entice the h into lurve club events. However the h is fighting her Treacherous Body Syndrome as best she can and she pushes the H off.
The h is now determined to tell his mother the truth and get out of what has turned into a hostile battleground of a farce of marriage and strangely enough, this changes the H's attitude. Now he claims he believes the h and we learn that the H feels that he was always second best to his little brother.
The H's mother twitters on about the H being the responsible, reliable type and his younger brother was a sickly child and then a reckless adrenaline seeker, so even tho the mother loves the H the best, she paid more attention to the younger child as he needed more looking after.
So it becomes clear that this H has a whole lot of jealousy and sibling rivalry going on. But the h and H do have a tentative reconciliation, until the h's slime pustule ex husband calls up and blackmails the h. He had previously called the H's idiot mum and got her to divulge a ton of information about the h and H under the guise of being a magazine journalist.
Instead of calling the police, cause DH has another 20 pages left, the slime pustule ex demands the h pay him money or he will go to the tabloids and say horrible things about the H and h. The h can't bear to have the H's name publicly smeared with a pack of lies and the H catches her out when she is trying to pay her ex the money.
The H gets furious all over again, he thinks the h is having it off with her ex or something and once again storms off before the h can explain. But he also gets rid of the ex too and gets the h's money back.
This leads to ANOTHER long, drawn out separation. The H goes off and does whatever, (and maybe whomever,) while the h nests in her Andalusian home outside of Cadiz. The h is almost ready to deliver her baby and has been getting once a month duty visits from the H. Neither one of them seem very happy, but the h is excited about being able to hold her baby.
It is storming really badly when the H shows up again, the h goes into labor and they are unable to make it into the hospital in town. The h is ready to push, (hilariously it is a first time pregnancy and a fifteen minute labor,) and her housekeeper helps deliver the little girl.
Now the H declares his True Love Forever, in a surprisingly well done speech where he blames his bad behavior on temporary insanity caused by jealousy. The H is also excited to be a dad and promises he will love the baby as if she were his biological own.
The h is all about insta-forgiveness and declares her love back and we get a really cute little epilogue where the H and h have three kids and still manage to find time for romance for the very sweet HEA.
This one starts out well and then kinda sinks under the weight of the h's inability to coherently express herself or call the police when she is being blackmailed. The H wasn't much of a prize at first either, but there were some good lines and decent amount of drama, so you do worse than to pick this one up for an HPlandia outing.
The h in this one is a famous author and writes best sellers that get made into movies for lots and lots of money. She had a very bad first marriage to a lyin', cheatin, credit card cloning slime pustule and after she dumped the slime swiller out of her life when he went to prison, she moved to Spain and started a new life.
Her mother is a distant bovine snot particle, but the h has managed to build a successful life on her own. Because the h was getting older - she is over 30- and had no plans to ever remarry, the h decided to have a baby with the H's younger, dashing roving reporter brother.
The h actually met the brother first and they developed a very nice camaraderie, when the brother suggested they use a clinic for artificial insemination. The h had been wanting a child for a while and the H's brother had no interest in a wife or family, yet he wanted to leave a genetic legacy.
The h thought this was a very sensible suggestion, there was no hint of sexual interest or romance on either side, so the H's brother made his contribution and the h went round and received it in clinic a little while later.
A few weeks after this, the H's brother was reporting in a war zone and died. The H and h met for the first time at the funeral and there was a very whirlwind romance. The H did his best to sweep the h off her feet and used the excuse that his brother talked about her all the time to woo her into a very hasty marriage.
When the book starts, the H and h are blissfully happy and have only been married about a week, then the h finds out she is baking a little bun, the only problem is that the wrong guy provided the yeast.
The H knows the h has been married and he is certainly no unicorn groomer himself. The reader could also reasonably believe that the H might have thought the h and his brother were lovers prior to his death, as the H presumes upon his brother's in depth acquaintanceship with the h several times during his pursuit of her. However the H was adamant that both of their pasts never needed to be discussed - the H clearly states he doesn't want to know.
So it comes as a huge shock when the h tells the H she is pregnant and his brother is the father and he gets super hostile and storms off. The h explains the whole clinic thing really badly and the H runs off fuming and being nasty about marrying his brother's sloppy seconds.
The h repeatedly tries to explain about the artificial insemination, but the H doesn't believe her and goes off about gold diggers and harlots and being made to carry the load instead of the baby's father.
(Which was utterly ludicrous, the h was fine with single parenting and has plenty of money of her own and a stable career and a home. The big thing for the H was that he thinks she slept with his brother, so I never understood why she just did not show him her records from the clinic who did the procedure and prove she had insemination.*sigh* )
The h is too pathetic to smack the H with a cast iron skillet and make him listen to her, so we get four chapters of the H being a nematode parasite insisting that the h pretend to be his adoring wife in front of his idiotic mum and her snot snarfing mother. The h is having a whiny mopey moment and again fails to just get on with taking care of herself.
Eventually the h wins a prestigious award and the H can't seem to resist trying to entice the h into lurve club events. However the h is fighting her Treacherous Body Syndrome as best she can and she pushes the H off.
The h is now determined to tell his mother the truth and get out of what has turned into a hostile battleground of a farce of marriage and strangely enough, this changes the H's attitude. Now he claims he believes the h and we learn that the H feels that he was always second best to his little brother.
The H's mother twitters on about the H being the responsible, reliable type and his younger brother was a sickly child and then a reckless adrenaline seeker, so even tho the mother loves the H the best, she paid more attention to the younger child as he needed more looking after.
So it becomes clear that this H has a whole lot of jealousy and sibling rivalry going on. But the h and H do have a tentative reconciliation, until the h's slime pustule ex husband calls up and blackmails the h. He had previously called the H's idiot mum and got her to divulge a ton of information about the h and H under the guise of being a magazine journalist.
Instead of calling the police, cause DH has another 20 pages left, the slime pustule ex demands the h pay him money or he will go to the tabloids and say horrible things about the H and h. The h can't bear to have the H's name publicly smeared with a pack of lies and the H catches her out when she is trying to pay her ex the money.
The H gets furious all over again, he thinks the h is having it off with her ex or something and once again storms off before the h can explain. But he also gets rid of the ex too and gets the h's money back.
This leads to ANOTHER long, drawn out separation. The H goes off and does whatever, (and maybe whomever,) while the h nests in her Andalusian home outside of Cadiz. The h is almost ready to deliver her baby and has been getting once a month duty visits from the H. Neither one of them seem very happy, but the h is excited about being able to hold her baby.
It is storming really badly when the H shows up again, the h goes into labor and they are unable to make it into the hospital in town. The h is ready to push, (hilariously it is a first time pregnancy and a fifteen minute labor,) and her housekeeper helps deliver the little girl.
Now the H declares his True Love Forever, in a surprisingly well done speech where he blames his bad behavior on temporary insanity caused by jealousy. The H is also excited to be a dad and promises he will love the baby as if she were his biological own.
The h is all about insta-forgiveness and declares her love back and we get a really cute little epilogue where the H and h have three kids and still manage to find time for romance for the very sweet HEA.
This one starts out well and then kinda sinks under the weight of the h's inability to coherently express herself or call the police when she is being blackmailed. The H wasn't much of a prize at first either, but there were some good lines and decent amount of drama, so you do worse than to pick this one up for an HPlandia outing.
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January 1, 2022
Scratching my head on this one. Hero was a massive jerk and the heroine was crazy to stick around.
I see a life of misery for both of them.
I see a life of misery for both of them.
July 6, 2013
I don't usually like romances where the heroine is pregnant to someone else when they get together with the hero. In this case I can make an exception because we are told right up front that the child is conceived in a clinic with donor sperm from the heroes brother. The brother dies and the hero Jed meets Elena at the funeral and they click immediately.
Believing the procedure didn't work, Elena holds off from telling Jed what happened but when she finds out she was wrong on their honeymoon, all hell breaks loose. Pretty much the whole story follows on from there.
Lots of lovely angst and a mature heroine (30). The ending is quite nice but unnecessarily complicated by the late addition of Elena's jailbird ex.
Believing the procedure didn't work, Elena holds off from telling Jed what happened but when she finds out she was wrong on their honeymoon, all hell breaks loose. Pretty much the whole story follows on from there.
Lots of lovely angst and a mature heroine (30). The ending is quite nice but unnecessarily complicated by the late addition of Elena's jailbird ex.
December 2, 2013
elena got on my nerves ! i was so sick of her n her stories were hard 2 believe. it seems she was painfully lacking in brains ! the lengths she wud go, really ! u went 2 have an intervention at the hospital, then u 4got 2 check whether it was successful or not. u even rush into marriage. ok u had lost some blood, a small period but logically u shud have been 2 a doctor. i also dunt understand these heroines in the books; y they can't make a baby the natural way instead of artificial insemination. i read lots of books where the hero had a past mistake, i mean had a baby when dat was not on his agenda. neway, lets get back 2 elena. the stunt she pulled at the end was wvwn sillier !! why she let herself be blackmailed when der was nthng liam had on her !? just lies !! is she dumb or what !? n doesn't she no the blackmailer wud be back 4 more ? lol:P jed shud have left her, der was only gud sex n she was pretty. beyond dat, she's a mess
March 27, 2021
That’s just gross. She is pregnant with his brother’s baby. And even though it was through artificial insemination, she still had his brother’s sperm inside her body.
They are married a week. The h didn’t even tell him before the marriage that she got inseminated with his brother’s sperm.
She thought (yes, she didn’t even check at the doctor’s office) that the insemination wasn’t a succes. But even then he had the right to know as her husband-to-be that only 6 weeks before they met, she had the AI done with his brother’s sperm.
And then after the H apologized for him being angry that she was pregnant with his brother’s child, she didn’t tell him that she was being blackmailed by her ex-husband.
So many lies from the h. So much betrayal from the h. He should have dumped that woman. There is an epilogue that they live happily ever after and that they have three children together. The writer must have been smoking something. This h can’t be trusted and she will keep telling lies and keep betraying him. Like Dr Phil says: ‘When people show you who they are, believe them’.
Uggghh. If it was on the cover that this was about AI with another man’s sperm and even worse about his brother’s sperm, then I wouldn’t have bought this book.
What a waste of time and money this HP is. It deserves minus a million stars.
They are married a week. The h didn’t even tell him before the marriage that she got inseminated with his brother’s sperm.
She thought (yes, she didn’t even check at the doctor’s office) that the insemination wasn’t a succes. But even then he had the right to know as her husband-to-be that only 6 weeks before they met, she had the AI done with his brother’s sperm.
And then after the H apologized for him being angry that she was pregnant with his brother’s child, she didn’t tell him that she was being blackmailed by her ex-husband.
So many lies from the h. So much betrayal from the h. He should have dumped that woman. There is an epilogue that they live happily ever after and that they have three children together. The writer must have been smoking something. This h can’t be trusted and she will keep telling lies and keep betraying him. Like Dr Phil says: ‘When people show you who they are, believe them’.
Uggghh. If it was on the cover that this was about AI with another man’s sperm and even worse about his brother’s sperm, then I wouldn’t have bought this book.
What a waste of time and money this HP is. It deserves minus a million stars.
March 11, 2013
For me, this novel was written really weirdly. I couldn't get into it really and I thought the hero was an idiot. I also thought the heroine was stupid to stay and take that abuse. It was just too much for me.
July 8, 2019
I had a problem getting my mind around how a woman decides to become pregnant and then rapidly meets and marries the brother of her sperm donor. When she realizes that she is pregnant, on her honeymoon (!), and tells her husband, she seems at times resigned to the end of her short marriage with the hope of reconciliation. Okay, so they made it past this elephant in the room and, even knowing that her husband is rebuilding trust in her, she meets with her ex-husband without sharing this with her current one. Really?
The new husband behaved with a lot of restraint; his new wife needs to learn to make better decisions.
The new husband behaved with a lot of restraint; his new wife needs to learn to make better decisions.
December 26, 2021
Okay
Why was the heroine always long winded with her explanations. A lot of her heartache could have been avoided if she told the truth. "Did you ever sleep with Sam?" "No" would have been sufficient but she gave an entire backstory to her husband about how she met jet. Someone blackmails her and instead of going to the man she supposedly loves she keeps it a secret. SMH.
Why was the heroine always long winded with her explanations. A lot of her heartache could have been avoided if she told the truth. "Did you ever sleep with Sam?" "No" would have been sufficient but she gave an entire backstory to her husband about how she met jet. Someone blackmails her and instead of going to the man she supposedly loves she keeps it a secret. SMH.
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