"Wonderfully descriptive romance"

The first meeting between Deanna Lindsey and Patterson Temple did not make a favorable impression on either one. It took place in the city morgue at Bellevue Hospital. Deanna was there because they had not been able to locate any relatives of Stacy Howell and Deanna's business card had been in Stacy's billfold. Stacy had been killed in a traffic accident and they need her body identified. Patterson was there because he knew Stacy because his grandmother, Betts, baby-sat Jade, Stacy's seven-year- old daughter. Deanna dismissed Patterson as not important when he told her he was a fireman with the NYFD and Patterson thought Deanna was a first class snob.

Neither Deanna nor Patterson knew just how their lives would become entwined because of Jade. Deanna received a call from Children's Services to inform her that she had been named as Jade's guardian if something should happen to Stacy. Since Deanna hadn't seen Stacy in about seven years she could not imagine why Stacy had named her. She knew that Patterson's grandmother had Jade and he had told her Betts loved Jade and wanted to keep her, but that he thought Betts was too old. Deanna's life was just how she liked it, no children. Her job managing the Information Center at a national network in Manhattan was fulfilling and she had a good relationship with a man who made no demands for marriage or children. She knew taking Jade would interfere with her relationship, if not the other parts of her life; but she decided to take Jade until a final decision was made.

Deanna's decision brought Patterson back into her life. Patterson still thought she was a snob and that she would not be able to handle life with a child. However, the more contact they had, he began to change his mind about Deanna and she began to change her mind about him. Deanna had another worry in the form of Jade's father Marcus who had just been released from prison. Marcus felt that just being Jade's father gave him the right to disrupt her life. He also was looking to make money off his relationship to Jade. Patterson had his own problems with finding a son he knew nothing about. These two people brought together by one little girl go through some trying times before they are able to admit their real feelings about each other.

SHE'S THE ONE is a wonderful story about two people with different views of life, and how they overcome that obstacle to form a loving relationship. It is filled with some wonderful characters and characters that are not so wonderful. Ms. Kitt has a way of describing details that keeps the reader involved in what is going on. I loved this book, which is my first Sandra Kitt novel but certainly not my last.

Reviewed by Hattie Boyd

Reviewed by Guest Reviewer
Courtesy Heart Rate Reviews
Posted October 8, 2001