I always enjoy surprise baby plots. Add in a second-chance romance and we have a winner. In this story, Jack Bailey has returned to his family after a terrible tragedy led him to leave his family and fiance, Lily, and go away. He still loves her and has vowed to do what he can to win her back.

Luckily for him, she succumbs his first night back and the result is a baby. Lily has been terribly hurt that the man she loved and had agreed to marry left without a word to her for five years and now wants to rekindle their romance.

It is a good set-up and I felt for these characters. However, it all gets resolved very quickly. It’s as if the author set up the situation and then decided to then declared it all resolved. I would have liked a bit more.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I love stories like this- rekindling old loves and oops a surprise baby. I hate I hadn't read book 1 of this series because I feel it would have been a tear jerker- this one was. Jack was pitiful in his heartbreak over losing his twin and nephew. To see that face everyday in the mirror would have to be tough. Although I sympathized with him, the way he left and the heartbreak he left Lily with was terrible. Lily has had a tough go of things during the 5 years Jack has been gone and she cannot let him back in her life. She cannot risk him running away and leaving her again.

These two go through a gamut of emotions to heal from love and loss and finding it all again.

Great story.