Proposicion Inocente

From Here to Maternity #2

by Elizabeth Bevarly

Para Sylvie Venner, la vida seria perfecta si tuviera un hijo. No un matrimonio ni un marido, solo un hijo. Naturalmente, necesitaba de la colaboracion voluntaria de un hombre para ese 'pequeno' favor, un hombre que no deseara formar una familia. Por suerte, conocia el candidato perfecto....

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Contemporary Romance

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 22, 1995

About the author

Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.

She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.

Reviews

[Desi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Leído el 19/02/2012

Protagonistas: Chase Buchanan y Sylvie Venner
Argumento:

Para Sylvie Venner, la vida sería perfecta si tuviera un hijo. No un matrimonio ni un marido, sólo un hijo. Naturalmente, necesitaba de la colaboración voluntaria de un hombre para ese "pequeño" favor, un hombre que no deseara formar una familia. Por suerte, conocía al candidato perfecto.
Soltero recalcitrante, Chase Buchanan hubiera hecho cualquier cosa por su amiga. Pero lo que Sylvie pedía iba mucho más allá de lo que consideraba un favor. ¿Cómo podía conformarse con ser el padre de su hijo y continuar siendo "solamente amigos" cuando él quería mucho más?

[Elgyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Klasická zápletka z 90. let (jsem emancipovaná, chci dítě hned a za každou cenu, tatínek netřeba, stačí dárce, proč mě nemiluje, já chudinka samotná...) je otravná a nudná.

Aniž bych se v tom chtěla nějak hlouběji patlat - s. 60
zajížděl dovnitř jako do dračí sluje
Až tak?

[Dina · Rating 3 out of 5]

From the book blurb:
SYLVIE'S WISH
Life would be perfect for Sylvie Venner if she had a baby. Not marriage, not a husband - just a baby. Of course, she would need a teensy favor from a willing male acquaintance - someone who had no desire for a family. Fortunately, she had the perfect candidate...

CHASE'S CHILD
Confirmed bachelor Chase Buchanan would do almost anything for a friend. But what Sylvie wanted went above and beyond the call of duty! How could he agree to father her child, and still stay "just friends" when he wanted so much more?

FROM HERE TO MATERNITY: Look teat the stork brought - a bundle of joy and the promise of love!

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[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

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