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West Coast Happily-Ever-After #4
A Baby on the Way
He and his wife, Casey, have moved back to California so he can take a shot at making partner in his prestigious law firm. Even if it means being closer to the family he doesn't quite fit into. It'll also give him a chance to get to know his father-in-law better. Best of all, the move will allow him to reconnect with Casey. Especially important now that she's given up her own law practice to see if they can finally get pregnant.
What he finds is a law office in a mess, a family who needs him and a coworker who has her eye on him— and his job. And that's before Casey ends up on the opposite side of a legal battle.
What he finds is a law office in a mess, a family who needs him and a coworker who has her eye on him— and his job. And that's before Casey ends up on the opposite side of a legal battle.
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 2006
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About the author
Debra Salonen
97 books210 followers- Born and raised in Brookings, South Dakota. Youngest of five (much youngest). A Baby Boomer who married her high school sweetheart (our lockers were side-by-side). Mother of two, grandmother of three darling princesses, dog mother of 2.5 mutts.
- Graduate of South Dakota State University with a Master’s degree in Geography and History.
- Job history: taxi driver, flax seed counter, cartographer, rural mail carrier, substitute teacher, secretary/community liaison for Merced College’s Child Development Center, bookkeeper, journalist, author.
- First sale story: June, 1999, to Harlequin Superromance. Total number of books sold to Harlequin =27.
- Honors and awards: Romantic Times BOOKreviews, 2006 Series Storyteller of the Year. Winner: Best Superromance of 2010: Until He Met Rachel. Nominated for Desert Quill in 2008.
- First book published by Tule Press, summer 2014: Cowgirl Come Home. The Big Sky Mavericks series opens Aug. 2014 with: Nobody's Cowboy.
- Graduate of South Dakota State University with a Master’s degree in Geography and History.
- Job history: taxi driver, flax seed counter, cartographer, rural mail carrier, substitute teacher, secretary/community liaison for Merced College’s Child Development Center, bookkeeper, journalist, author.
- First sale story: June, 1999, to Harlequin Superromance. Total number of books sold to Harlequin =27.
- Honors and awards: Romantic Times BOOKreviews, 2006 Series Storyteller of the Year. Winner: Best Superromance of 2010: Until He Met Rachel. Nominated for Desert Quill in 2008.
- First book published by Tule Press, summer 2014: Cowgirl Come Home. The Big Sky Mavericks series opens Aug. 2014 with: Nobody's Cowboy.
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December 29, 2017
A Baby After All is the fourth story in the West Coast HEA series, a selection of contemporary romances linked by their location. Each is stand-alone and each is so very worth reading.
Author Debra Salonen writes emotion so well you could swear you were in the room with her characters as they live out their story. Casey T and Nathan are the couple around whom this book is centred. Married, they clearly love each other but as with so many couples, their love story is a little frayed around the edges.
The stress of trying to have a baby combined with a move from Boston to San Francisco puts further pressure on Casey and Nathan and then there are an array of additional issues associated with their respective families, leaving them frustrated and unhappy.
I got so engrossed in this story. I couldn’t not care about Casey, Nathan, Casey’s dad Red and the various other secondary characters who helped to make it so real. The struggles they went through are the sort of real struggles that you and I might face. I went through plenty of tissues during this story. Of course I knew it would work out, but I was utterly involved along the way, hoping and praying. This is one story I’ll be going back to again and again.
Author Debra Salonen writes emotion so well you could swear you were in the room with her characters as they live out their story. Casey T and Nathan are the couple around whom this book is centred. Married, they clearly love each other but as with so many couples, their love story is a little frayed around the edges.
The stress of trying to have a baby combined with a move from Boston to San Francisco puts further pressure on Casey and Nathan and then there are an array of additional issues associated with their respective families, leaving them frustrated and unhappy.
I got so engrossed in this story. I couldn’t not care about Casey, Nathan, Casey’s dad Red and the various other secondary characters who helped to make it so real. The struggles they went through are the sort of real struggles that you and I might face. I went through plenty of tissues during this story. Of course I knew it would work out, but I was utterly involved along the way, hoping and praying. This is one story I’ll be going back to again and again.
January 3, 2018
I enjoyed this book. It shows the stress of failed IVF attempts on a married couple.Casey and Nathan Kent are still in love with each other but they are not really communicating from all of the stress of not being able to get pregnant. Add to that stress Nathan decides to move to the west coast for his law firm. They have to move to a tiny apartment and Casey has to put up with another lawyer putting moves on her husband. It was so nice to see that Nathan realized how much his wife had sacrificed for him and that he was able to make sacrifices for her too in the end. It was also nice to see Casey reconnect with her father which brought the story full circle for her. I received an advance copy of this book and I willingly chose to write an honest review.
January 17, 2018
Author Debra Salonen's delicate touch carefully balances the various family dynamics which play out within the context of the Big Bad Business versus the Fragile Environment story core, managing to control the potential for caricature abuse while presenting a well-balanced view of characters, motivations, and the overarching need for open and honest communication at the most basic level to preserve that most tenuous of relationships--marriage. I know. I should have warned you to take a deep breath before approaching that classic run-on sentence. But, in a nutshell, this is a great story which will keep you turning the pages!
June 18, 2015
I am not sure why I picked this one up, I don't generally like the stories about a marriage that is falling apart and those involved are trying to save it. They hurt to read. However, this couple was very realistic and quite understandable. The moral, both people in a relationship need to work to keep a marriage strong. The side stories were also quite fascinating.
August 1, 2014
Great sotry! Loved the people in it. I highly recommend reading this one.
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