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Even though she is facing being life as new doctor, she quickly adapts and enjoys her role as new mother. 6 months after the baby is born she moves back to the small down in Maine, still expecting to never see the baby's father since she believed he was passing through. Instead, as she quickly discovers since he is her first patient, that he has always lived in the town. Since the 34 year old father of her child is standing there with his 19 year bimbo cheerleader girlfriend, she panics and says she is married. Worse, she discovers he is the landlord of her new residence!
The lie grows and grows until she finds herself buying clothes and creating magazine subscripts in the 'husbands' name, trying to convince Jack that she is married.
It is often a little stretched, and you really wonder if someone would go to these extremes, but Fox's writing makes the whole thing enjoyable!
One year later, Delaney and her infant Emily return so that the former can set up her medical practice. However, she is stunned when Jack Shepard of Sailboat Jack fame enters her office due to an accident he just suffered. She is shocked to learn he is not from Cape Cod, but a local who happens to be her landlord as well as her baby�s father. Unable to cope, Delaney begins a series of fabrications that soon prove the adage �oh what a web we weave when we first deceive� especially when love further obfuscates the situation.
Any novel that can include a reference to the Silver Surfer has to be admired even if MAYBE BABY requires reader acceptance on why Delaney escalates her house of lies. Once taking that leap, readers will find the humorous story line quite genial even with its serious undertone that rural America needs doctors. The lead couple is an alluring duo in spite of the mendacious Delaney�s growing fears of discovery. Elaine Fox furnishes the audience a lively contemporary romance.
Harriet Klausner
Next: someone else mentioned making the leap of disbelief, but that was just too much for me. The characters, especially the hero, did things I didn't understand and junped to too many conclusions. I didn't understand why the hero was so desperate to prove the heroine was lying about being married, yet *didn't* ask himself why she was doing it. Probably because he would have come up with the answer pretty quickly. The heroine was too passive for me to really care about what happened to her.
Unfortunately for me as a reader, I didn't find a "vibrant new voice" with this book.
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