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Back to Books The Right Match
Director of marketing Tracy Perkins has spent her whole life trying to win her father’s approval and competing with her vivacious, domesticated younger sister. Even though her dad is dead, this ugly duckling still feels the need to prove herself in her career. She’s been rejected by every man in her life and has finally accepted her insecurities and inhibitions as a woman make her much too frustrating for any guy to love. She’s had her heart broken for the very last time. Ethan Swann’s family tree turns into a genealogist’s nightmare when the overworked CEO discovers his half-sister needs a bone marrow transplant and his stepfather has another daughter he’s never told them about. She is none other than Tracy Perkins, the uptight prude Ethan’s stepfather asked him to hire eight years earlier. His half-sister’s leukemia has made Ethan face his own mortality, and suddenly he wants a child...but only if he can skip the I do. After witnessing the pain his stepfather endured in loving Ethan’s late invalid mother, he’s sworn never to open himself up to caring for a woman that much. Despite his family tree's tangled branches, one thing is perfectly clear to Ethan--he is in no way related to his stepfather’s love child. And it’s a darn good thing, too, because he suddenly finds himself inexplicably attracted to the sexually repressed puritan who works for him. When Tracy’s overbearing hemorrhoid of a boss tells her his stepdad is her real father and they share a half-sister who needs her help, Tracy is naturally bitter--and horrified. But once they discover they’re each only half compatible as donors--and they have a one in four chance of conceiving a child who’s umbilical stem cells would match--she’s terrified. How can she possibly love a child when she’s never felt loved herself? Things just go from bad to worse when Ethan suggests fertility drugs to increase their odds. Now, the big jerk doesn’t just want Tracy to have a baby...he wants her to have two or three.
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A Little Bit of Déjà Vu The Memory of You No Exchanges, No Returns
Copyright 2008 Laurie Kellogg
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