Ruby worked three jobs when she first met Ares, she was handsome, rich and everyone in town wanted him. Honestly this book was boring and I just couldn't even finish it. It's so not like me because once I start a book I have to finish it but I just couldn't do it with this one.

This was a wonderful book that I enjoyed riding immensely. Ruby was an amazing woman that provided for her mother and sister. She is a spitfire and has character. I love that she speaks her mind and doesn't hold her tongue but I felt so bad for her. Because the night she met Ares and decided to have fun for one night. He was the type of man that her mother had warned her to stay away from but she was attracted to him. So that one night had consequences not only to herself but that night she also lost her mother. Ares is going to have a long journey to find himself and for him to figure out that he can love a person, that he can be a great husband and father.

Claiming His Nine-Month Consequence was a great read. The characters were well developed and both characters had great qualities. The romance between them is sensual. I love them together.

I totally recommend this read!!!

Received ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an Honest Review

This was a quick, entertaining read. I enjoyed the story.

awesome book I cant wait to read the baby sister's story.

Claiming His Nine-Month Consequence is a deeply sensuous story filled with extravagance and riches, of a man who is afraid of love, scarred by his past and the woman who sees right through the mask he wears.
Honestly, even though I had it, I was reluctant to read this story because I did not know what to expect. Then I read a review which basically was like a Wikipedia page of the book, spoilers and all. I read the first paragraph about Ruby and immediately fell in love with her and that prompted me to read the book. Of course, I didn't finish reading the review. I stopped at the first paragraph. I didn't want any spoilers. But that review did propel me to get stuck into the book.
One of the things that Ms Lucas did particularly well was show us the world Ares lived in and illustrated how different it was from the every day lives of normal people. It was rich, sumptuous, and extravagant. The extent of his wealth and how it was lived out by him blew me away. Ms Lucas really showed me how the uber-rich lived when she described Ares' life and what he could do with his money. For the first time, I truly grasped how far apart the life I live is from someone like Ares, or a billionaire. While I've read heaps of books with billionaires in them, this is the first time I've read it laid out in all its incomprehensible glory. Ms Lucas' descriptions fired my imagination and took me beyond anything I had ever envisioned in the past.
Even though Ares was a class-A jerk, I liked him. I understood where he was coming from as he described his past and his upbringing. He wasn't a heartless person, he was simply a man trying to protect himself and his heart after it had be trodden on over and over again throughout his life. While he couldn't offer love and forever, Ares as kind, protective and caring. Beneath the hard shell he showed the world, there was a tender man who cared but was afraid to show it or feel it. I waited with anticipation for the moment when Ares came to the grand realisation that he had fallen in love after all. It was a great moment.
I loved Ruby even before I met her because of the one paragraph from the review I read. Ruby is poor. She worked three jobs to support her family. She's also strong, caring, and loving. And so incredibly responsible. She thinks of everyone before herself. And the one night she takes the time for herself, there are big consequences. Consequences beyond what she shared with Ares, and my heart broke for her. I loved Ruby's patience with Ares and her hope for him. It showed the depth of her love for him and how true it was. She deserved everything and all the happiness that life could afford.
Ms Lucas is a new-to-me author. This won't be the only book of hers I read. I'm definitely going to seek out more books by her.

This is Are and Ruby’s story. He gets her pregnant. He wants to marry her. She only wants to marry for love. He can only give her passion. He has to lose Ruby and their child to realize he is in love.

I like the premise of the book. The down on her luck, small town girl meets the obnoxiously, rich, cynical boy is a tale as old as Harlequin Presents has been around. And it worked. For the most part.

I liked the heroine, Ruby. She's not in the best circumstances of her life and she's struggling financially but she has a plan and an ambition. The hero was okay, too. Despite him being spoiled and stubbornly refusing to acknowledge his feelings for the heroine, Ares was responsible enough to be there for Ruby. He had a lot to unlearn and the Ruby was there to help him.

It was comical watching Ares try to win Ruby only to have his plans fail spectacularly because he kept assuming things about her. But he learned.

My only issue is that some things were just conveniently solved without a hitch. For example, Ruby's sister became disillusioned with Ruby after she refused to accept help from Ares at first. She doesn't want to be labeled a gold-digger, you see. Something that her sister has no problem with. They had a row where she said some nasty things to Ruby then abandoned her. Suddenly, Ares offered to give her money for school, etc. and viola! It's good again.

There are a few more things but I'm not inclined to write them all down because I don't want to spoil the book. Overall, I liked it despite not being very memorable.

Passionate! Claiming His Nine-Month Consequence by Jennie Lucas had all the right sultry notes. Ares and Ruby are a match, even though their lives are so different. Ares had me from the very first moment he laid eyes on Ruby. Amazing descriptions of scorching looks and checked passions drove this story.
I wish Ares could have been more mature at times. Many times the dialogue between Ares and Ruby weighed down the story for me. His indecisiveness to keep her or send her away was annoying.
My biggest pet peeve was Ivy! I lost all respect for her when she walked out the door on her pregnant sister. She only comes back because Ares makes her an offer she can't refuse.
I enjoyed how the Ares and Ruby's love story comes together at the end. Lucas writes the perfect love scenes, heightening the senses. I look forward to reading more from Jennie Lucus.

3.5 Review

It is a Harlequin Presents so I was expecting the overbearing hero; nonetheless, Ares was more than that. Meanwhile, Ruby, the heroine, was unbelievably nice. I am not sure Ares is really going to change to deserve Ruby and at the same time I do not think Ruby is going to make him work harder. It was a good read to pass the time, but Jennie Lucas can do a lot better than that.

A rags to riches romance with an unlikely prince charming.
Bartender Ruby pierces through billionaire Ares Kourakis' veil of boredom leading to a passionate night in his bed. The last thing he expects is a phone call to his secretary telling him she's pregnant. For a man who doesn't believe in families or ever after there really isn't a future for them, or is there?
Ruby is feisty and a great heroine who for all her poverty is not intimidated by Ares extreme wealth or lifestyle.  When she discovers that she's living in a fool's paradise off she goes back home to make a success of herself.  The story is a feel good happily ever after escape even if the plot is a bit implausible.

Claiming His Nine-Month Consequence
by Jennie Lucas
Okay okay, arguably a four... BUT, I so loved the heroine in this story. Her heart, her determination, her strength. I had to give five stars. While it can be said it is a well known type of story line, I think the author did a great job with it. I enjoyed her characters, as well as the way it is written. I think she has a fresh writing style that makes it work. It is a book that is a good read! So buy and sit and enjoy for it is easy to lose yourself in the story. I will look for more from this author for this one has caught my attention. I was given this book in return for an honest review. Anna Swedenmom

Truly a nice Harlequin read but I wish the H for once was not your average HP jerk - Rich, womanizer, cold, doesn't do love, broken past, etc. For once, I would love to see a H who is not afraid to let love in and chases h. Loved Ruby though!!

I might be getting burned out on these because this story didn't really offer anything new other than taking place in the US which Harlequin Presents doesn't normally do. For what it was, it was a good little book but it didn't excite me very much.

Ruby Prescott works three jobs to support her sick mother and her teenage sister. When her underage sister sets her sights on billionaire playboy, Ares Kourakis, Ruby sees red. She storms over intending to get her sister thrown out of the bar she has no business being , and ends up catching the eye of the man herself. When he turns his considerable seduction techniques her way, will she be able to stand her ground?

Ares has made a policy of never falling in love. He pursues the women he wants, and walks before they can get any ideas of trapping him into marriage. When Ruby storms up to his table, he sees a woman unlike any he's known before, someone who might break him out of his boredom. One night with her and he's running scared. He's too focused on never falling in love to see that Ruby could be his forever. What will it take for Ares to see that Ruby brings color to his life? Will their baby bring them together or tear them apart forever?

Rating 4.5

I appreciated the heroine in this story. Ruby was strong, loved her family and had tenacity. Ruby took care of her sick mother and younger sister. She worked three jobs and lived paycheck to paycheck but provided and helped her family. She was working at a famous night club in Star Valley, Idaho. Ruby was bartending when her sister (who is nineteen) show's up dressed to the nines. She's heard Ares is in the night club. Ares the gorgeous, single billionaire who everyone is talking about. He recently purchased a 30 million dollar home in the ski resort town. Ruby's sister was determined to meet him and marry him so the family doesn't have to struggle anymore. Ares was seated in the VIP section and this is where Ruby finds her sister (after excusing herself from tending bar and serving drinks). Ruby confronts her sister and lets Ares in on her sisters plan. Ares is instantly drawn to Ruby. Ruby, she wants nothing to do with a rich single man, history has taught her they bring nothing but pain.

Ares finds Ruby beautiful and refreshingly honest and authentic. He's in town for 24hours and want time with her before he leaves the country the next morning. Ruby fights her attraction to Ares but finds him fascinating and concedes to spend time with him. They do an evening of snowboarding and dinner at his new home. And in the end of the evening find themselves in bed together. The next morning a conversation goes terribly wrong and Ruby says good bye and leaves Ares stunned. He finds she's affected his emotions and that's not okay, he doesn't do emotions thank to his parents (horrible parents by the way).

Months later Ares is shocked to learn from a phone call from his PA that he received a phone call from Ruby and he's going to be a father. Ruby is pregnant. He flies back to Idaho and finds that Ruby's mother died, her sister left town and her not doing so well in her pregnancy. He whisks her back to his home in New York, determined to make sure she and the baby are taken care of. Ares will take care of her during her pregnancy but once the baby's born he will send her back to Idaho to live in his home with finances for her and the baby for life. He doesn't do relationships or emotions.

But as the two spend time together, Rubys kind and sunny disposition start to chip away at Ares guarded heart. He begins to see life through Rubys eyes and finds maybe there is goodness around. Ruby finds out what Ares life was like growing up and what he endured. She knows that he's good and caring even though he tries to bury it under a cool and distant demeanor. As time passes the two draw closer and begin to become more vulnerable and honest with their feelings. In their journey to HEA they had moments of painful confrontations.

This was an angst filled romance. But Rubys character was one that added goodness and light to the romance, which made it a nice balance. Ruby was strong, bold, sweet and an artsy/colorful character. Ares was your typical alpha hero, at times he came across cold but the you'd see a glimpse of his willingness to please and make Ruby happy. His character would wrestle with guarding himself/heart but yet yielding/melting to Ruby goodness and tenacity. They were a nice balance to each other and the development in their relationship had good pacing and a nice HEA.