"A wonderful sequel to A BABY OF HER OWN!"

This book is the sequel to A BABY OF HER OWN and is about Delaney's best friend Rebecca. Rebecca has always been just a bit wild and has gone tit for tat practical joke with Josh Hill, her mortal enemy. After all she's the fourth girl and everybody knows her dad wanted a boy. He just threw Josh up in Rebecca's face every chance he could get.

Josh has wondered all these years just why Rebecca has it in for him but still he's always at least wanted to be her friend. Rebecca would have none of it. Now Rebecca is engaged to Buddy, a guy she met on the Internet. Josh is practically engaged to Mary, the ex-cheerleader and a divorced mother of the most adorable little boy that Josh enjoys playing surrogate father to. Josh just isn't satisfied though. He and Rebecca nearly had a one-night stand about a year before and he's always wondered what it would have been like.

Rebecca refuses to have any feelings for Josh even though there was that one night that she nearly slept with Josh. She felt that if she had she'd have regretted it for the rest of her life but still there's this just not knowing. Now Buddy has postponed their wedding for the third time. What's a girl to do?

The most fun part of this book was the interaction between Josh and Rebecca. I just laughed myself silly over their antics. I've always heard there's a thin line between love and hate and this seems to describe Josh and Rebecca exactly! They are fighting their attraction tooth and nail and it was fun to see how things would finally end up.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one and look forward to reading the next book in the series, A FAMILY OF HER OWN. I'm just not sure I can stand to wait until next spring for it! Brenda Novak consistantly gives good reads.

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted May 22, 2003

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Summary

Who's going to win the battle of Dundee, Idaho?
The town's bad girl or its favorite son?

Rebecca Wells desperately wants to overcome her reputation. She's finally trying to put an end to her twenty-four-year rivalry with the perfect Josh Hill, a rivalry that began when she was a kid and the Hills moved in across the street. Great-looking, popular, a successful horse rancher, Josh is Dundee's golden boy—and the son her father always wanted.

But even when her father insists they call a truce, it's hard for Rebecca to drop her resentment of Josh. She refuses to acknowledge that she feels more for him than she's ever let on. The man she loves to hate is also the man she'd hate to love!