THE BRIDE'S BABY

Author: Liz Fielding ISBN: 9780373175062 4/2008 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: HARLEQUIN

It's the wedding planner's worst nightmare and when the bride elopes with one of her staff three days before the wedding, it isn't only the groom's heart that has a debit balance. Sylvie Smith has bills to pay. The jilted groom has his own way of settling debts, however. Six months on, wedding organiser to the seriously rich, Sylvie Smith is organising a glittering fundraising event: a fantasy wedding at a wedding show, held in a stately home that will be featured in a lifestyle magazine. Not just any fantasy wedding. They want her fantasy. It should be every woman's dream, designing her own dream wedding with no expense spared, but for Sylvie it was her worst nightmare. One, she's pregnant. Two, Longbourne Court was her ancestral home and she's just discovered that the new owner is Tom McFarlane: her baby's secret father. Now Tom's standing in front of her, looking at her bump.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Liz Fieldings’ THE BRIDE’S BABY is sheer magic! One of those feel-good stories that is so realistic it could be drawn from the headlines. I fell hook, line and sinker for smart, savvy Sylvie, a woman whose quick erotic interlude with a handsome man brings a positive result to a pregnancy test.

An unlikely, but fortuitous, set of circumstance throw Sylvie and Tom, the man she’s made passionate love with, back together. This story is so short and its plot so swift-moving I fear giving too much away, so I’ll simply say that wearing a wedding gown doesn’t always make a bride, not even if the woman who’s wearing it is pregnant, in the home of her baby’s father and surrounded by well-wishers. Or does it?

I smiled through THE BRIDE’S BABY by Liz Fielding. I think anyone will. The romance is fast and fresh, the situation and characters contemporary and smart and the ending is perfect. What’s not to love?

Kay James