"Funny Reunited Love Tale!"

Jake Peterson needed a wife like yesterday if he had any hopes of keeping the adorable baby girl he inherited after his two very best friends were killed in a car crash. To Jake's dismay the social worker suggests he get married. Jake thinks that will be easy he will hire someone to play a beloved wife and mother to Bonnie so that he can get legal custody. The social worker dashes all his hopes when she informs him he has to marry someone he has history with. The only person that qualifies is his ex-wife Candy Jacobs.

Candy Jacobs swore off motherhood and being a wife after her spilt from Jake ten years earlier. Suddenly Jake is back in her life asking for the impossible. He wants to marry Candy! Candy is very apprehensible about this plan due to her mother's neglect and cruel behavior. She feels inadequate to be a good wife and mother. One look into Bonnie's baby blue eyes and Candy is having feelings not only for baby Bonnie but Bonnie's sinfully handsome father as well.

Laura Marie Altom writes a wonderfully, tender reunited love story. Readers will be laughing and crying with this one. Due to many misconceptions on both the hero and heroine's part, they have been apart for too long. Their reunion is very explosive and beautiful. This novel is filled with wonderful secondary characters who bring something funny to the mix making this a sure fire summer read!

Reviewed by Ronica Rainge
Posted June 24, 2003