This is the second book in the Blackberry Bay series, but can definitely be read as a standalone. Reyna Bishop and her mother, run Bishop’s Auto Care & Bakery, sounds funny doesn't it? Reyna is the auto care part and her mother runs the bakery. They aren't rich, but they make enough to have a good life. Reyna really wants to have a child and after another disastrous relationship, she decides IVF may be the way to go. The problem is, the cost. Enter Brady Nash. Brady and Reyna had one night together and it was a disaster. He is also know as a womanizer. Reyna asks him if he would be willing to father her child, with no strings attached. They strike a bargain to fake date, until she gets pregnant and then "break up" and she will raise the child. What Reyna doesn't realize is that Brady considers her the one that got away that he hasn't gotten over. He plans to use the time to convince her that they can have a life together and he doesn’t have any plans to abandon this relationship.

This is a fake relationship turns real story that I enjoyed. Reyna and Brady both have feelings toward one another and have had for a long time, but, they do not communicate that to one another. In fact, these two likable characters could be very frustrating. Both of them had issues with self-esteem, thinking the other could not possibly care and were afraid to open up to each other. Their vulnerability was sweet, but I wanted them to open up to each other. The characters were great and I liked them all. I enjoyed meeting their extended families as well. As the story moved forward, it was Brady's bravery in laying his heart on the line that gives Reyna the courage to reveal hers. I enjoyed the story, but was disappointed that although it is set at Christmas time, there really was very little "Christmas" in the story. I do recommend this one to those who enjoy a good fake relationship romance.

This is a romance, and this is the second book in the Blackberry Bay series. Reyna Bishop and Brady Nash decides to have a baby together without being together, and they fake date. They both are in love with each other, but they are to scare to tell each other. I really loved this book, and the characters was so great and loved them. This book was very well-written, and the characters really came to life. This is a great and cute Christmas book. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Harlequin Special Edition) or author (Shannon Stacey) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review about how I feel about this book, and I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.

When I started reading romance after 30 years away, one of the first romances I read was Sarah Mayberry’s Best Laid Plans. Introduced to the genre with The Flame and the Flower, Mayberry’s romance was revelatory. It told me how much the genre had changed and how wonderful those changes were. I’d never have believed when The Flame and the Flower was the norm to read about an older heroine and hero, professionals both, disappointed by past relationships, agreeing to share a child (and, hey, it’s a romance, so they also fall in love along the way). I was attracted to Stacey’s Their Christmas Baby Contract because I was nostalgic for Mayberry’s romance and because, foolish as this is becoming, I yearn for a wonderful category romance (two attempts with previously beloved authors left me cold). Stacey’s premise captured me. The blurb will set it up for us:

Brady Nash is handsome and anti marriage. And with IVF completely out of her financial reach, Reyna Bishop is running out of time to have the child she so very much wants. Theirs is a practical baby-making deal: no emotion, no expectation, no ever-after. They’ll even “date” through Christmas to silence their hometown gossips. It’s foolproof…till the time she spends with Brady and his warm, loving family leaves Reyna wanting more than a baby…

Brady isn’t anti-marriage, nor a commitment-phobe: he has a reputation, completely unjustified, as a ladies man. Reyna too has an unjustified reputation as a man-killer. Neither of them live up to either and the town, cutesy-Christmas-parade-Hallmark-decorated is unkind in its assessment. But bargain they do and we’re off to the baby races by chapter three, with two calm, responsible introverts falling in love and ever denying it, uncertain of the other’s feelings, hesitant about their own.

Their Christmas Baby Contract is a romance chock-full of great ideas, executed in, for the most part, weak and uninteresting writing. For example, Brady and Reyna had a one-night stand in the past: Brady was “too quick on the draw,” Reyna was disappointed … and their previous friendship is now strained and uncomfortable. Until the baby contract. See great idea, but a weak execution, a lot like Brady’s initial performance. Secondly, I loved that Reyna and Brady are working-class characters, that Brady is smitten and Reyna takes a longer time to recognize how wonderful a guy Brady is (his bed-sport is vastly improved in the baby-making and it’s good Stacey doesn’t make a big deal out it).

Once the contract is sealed, however, the novel contains tedious filler: with family scenes and/or issues filling in for a lack of conflict between the protagonists; a melodramatic element is introduced, then dropped; Brady and Reyna share many meals and Thanksgiving goes by until the HEA-sealing at Christmas. Not much happens and Brady and Reyna’s feelings are evident from the get-go. I don’t mind a low-key romance, but the writing was weak because of the intrusive presence of an authorial voice recounting the story instead of developping it and the characters. Maybe there are readers who would enjoy the nondescript romance and flat writing, but I’m not that reader. This wasn’t the worst romance I’ve read, but it was utterly ho-hum. Sadly, Miss Austen agrees and we deem Their Christmas Baby Contract “downright labour,” Emma.

Shannon Stacey’s Their Christmas Baby Contract is published by Harlequin Books. It was released in October 2020 and may be found at your preferred vendors. I received an e-galley of Their Christmas Baby Contract from Harlequin for the purposes of this review, via Netgalley.

Their Christmas Baby Contract is the second book in the Blackberry Bay series but was fine reading as a stand-alone. This was a new author for me, and I am so glad I discovered her. The book was original with a unique storyline. I loved the small-town of Blackberry Bay and meeting all the heartwarming side characters.
Reyna Bishop and Brady Nash grew up together and Brady had fallen in love with Reyna in first grade. He’d loved her so long that when he finally got her in his arms and bed his “performance” was not good. Over the years they had avoided each other due to the awkwardness. Reyna was ready to have a baby but did not want a man in her life. She decides to ask Brady if he will father a child with her. Their lives change when she discovers she is pregnant. Can they get over their fears of rejection and admit their true feelings for each other before it is too late?
I enjoyed reading this book and meeting the town residents of Blackberry Bay. This was a book that left me with a big smile on my face. Reyna and Brady were perfect for each other. I was cheering for Brady the entire time because his love for Reyna was so apparent and I wanted his dreams to come true.

Dear Shannon Stacey,

There are very few romance books where the main characters have bad sex but I appreciate every single one I’ve read. It helps balance the scale a little with all the simultaneous orgasms zinging about in Romancelandia. In the case of Reyna Bishop and Brady Nash, their first sexual encounter was definitely nothing to write home about (do people ever do that I wonder??). Reyna and Brady grew up together in the small town of Blackberry Bay and, one night after a few too many drinks, one thing led to another and they had sex. Except Brady was a two second wonder and Reyna was left unsatisfied and wondering just how Brady go that player reputation he has. Brady, for his part, was so into Reyna that his excitement got the better of him and he, quite literally, lost it. Embarrassed after his non-spectacular performance, neither Reyna nor Brady ever talked about it and for the past few years things have been very awkward between them.

At a charity hockey game, much to Reyna’s dismay the not-terribly-exciting guy she’d been dating fairly noncommittally proposes on the Jumbotron and things only go downhill from there. Brady, who has never dropped the torch he has carried for Reyna, knows how much Reyna would have disliked the grand gesture and how humiliated she would be and offers her a ride home.

Reyna is beginning to think she will miss out on the opportunity to have a child. Her biological clock is ticking and she cannot afford IVF or artificial insemination procedures. Her hope was to date a man who had “good dad” written all over him and settle down. She wasn’t looking for a husband and partner so much as a guy who would be a father to her child. Which is a bit messed up when you think about it but biological clocks can be funny things.

In the period after the debacle at the hockey match, Reyna rethinks her plan and comes up with the idea of asking Brady, a guy she knows and trusts, to conceive a child with her “the old-fashioned way”. Given they live in a small town they decide to fake date for a while so that the pregnancy appears as a result of a real relationship rather than an arrangement. That way the child will be less likely to suffer any social stigma. Reyna explicitly wants a child not a partner at this point. Brady, as it happens, wants both and more specifically he wants a child with Reyna and Reyna as his partner but he’s willing to go along with Reyna’s idea thinking 50% is better than nothing.

I’m not very experienced reading Harlequin SE books. Had I been I might have expected that Reyna and Brady wouldn’t have a sex fest for a few months and build their relationship. (There is a sex fest but it’s later and mostly off page.) After their first night together trying to get pregnant, they pull back, each realising that feelings are involved. (Fortunately for everyone, Brady does MUCH better on his second (and subsequent) tries and Reyna no longer judges his prowess as lacking. But because of Romancelandia magic they strike gold on their first attempt and pretty soon they’re having to fake date anyway because there’s a bun in the oven. That’s where Reyna and Brady start to connect on a more intimate level. Reyna in particular sees Brady are more than his not-all-that-well-deserved reputation as a player. (Brady, for his part, has always known that Reyna is not in fact “hell on men” as her own reputation proclaims.) She sees him interact with his family, in particular his young nephews, they spend time comfortably hanging out together and it becomes easier and easier to imagine a life together as romantic partners and not just co-parents.

I should have known, given their history that this would be a big misunderstanding book. Or, at least, a book where the central conflict was all about a lack of clear communication. Unfortunately for me, that conflict rarely works for me. Mostly it makes me impatient. I know that in real life people often are reluctant to bare their souls and reveal intimate secrets for fear of being rejected but personally, I’m the kind of person who would rather put it all out there and know for sure rather than guess and potentially be wrong about the conclusion I jumped to. (It probably helps that most often when I jump to a conclusion I have been proven wrong). There are times I can understand why a character would reasonably reach the conclusion they have and would not question it – and those are the stories I can go with more easily, but that is not the case here. A pet peeve of mine is to hear half a story. I’m the person who will stop and ask for the person to finish their sentence rather than guess the end. So, I just got frustrated when Reyna filled in the blanks for Brady (or vice versa) rather than asked for clarity.

I did like the comfortable every day depictions of family life and hanging out together watching movies, cooking dinner and the like. I liked that Brady and Reyna each understand the challenges of owning and operating their own business and how neither tried to get in the other’s way professionally.

Perhaps it’s just how my brain works but I did wonder that first (or, should I say, second) time Reyna and Brady had sex when it was supposed to be for baby-making purposes only, how it instantly became sexy and romantic with lots of foreplay (none of which is strictly necessary for pregnancy of course) and how it apparently didn’t feel weird or awkward. In the end I decided it was code for “this couple are meant to be together” but it did feel a little odd that the encounter mimicked exactly a functional and passionate romantic relationship given, at the time, it was not.

For readers who are more forgiving about miscommunication I’m sure the story will be more successful. Brady and Reyna are otherwise fun characters and they clearly adored one another.

Grade: B-

Regards,
Kaetrin

good read, definitely will recommend to someone to read love a book about a baby! and Christmas all I can ask for in a Harlequin book!

A fantastic romance from Shannon Stacey. I adore her world building and characterizations. I hope there is more of this series!

First sentence: “Nice day for a hockey game.” Reyna Bishop would know that smooth, deep voice anywhere and, after tucking her debit card into her back pocket and accepting two steamed hot dogs from the vendor, she turned to face Brady Nash.

Premise/plot: Reyna Bishop, our heroine, wants a BABY. Brady Nash, our hero, wants a baby. Can these two sometimes-friends agree to terms--a contract if you will--to have a baby together, no strings attached. She is not telling him that she wants them to be together-together, to get married, to live together--she's just wanting a BABY without having to go through all the relationship steps first. Brady agrees to whatever Reyna is offering. Hint he has been in love with her since first grade.

My thoughts: This was a cute enough holiday story. It was smutty, I won't lie. But it was almost self-contained smut. There was like one chapter where they are trying for the baby where all the smut happens, and anything outside of that is more off-screen and more suggestive than smutty-smut. It would definitely be more skippable if one prefers--like I do--a cleaner read. I liked the story being told from both his and her perspectives. I thought the characters were developed well enough considering this was a romance novel.

This was a wonderful heartfelt Christmas tale with real life characters, super settings by a truly talented author

Their Christmas Baby Contract by Shannon Stacey is a contemporary romance. Striking the deal was the easy part. Brady Nash is handsome and anti-marriage. And with IVF completely out of her financial reach, Reyna Bishop is running out of time to have the child she so very much wants. Theirs is a practical baby-making deal: no emotion, no expectation, no ever-after. They’ll even “date” through Christmas to silence their hometown gossips. It’s foolproof, until the time she spends with Brady and his warm, loving family leaves Reyna wanting more than a baby.

Their Christmas Baby Contract is a small town, kinda-friends to lovers romance. Reyna and Brady both feel a little trapped by the small town gossip, especially since it has them pegs wrong. Both are thoughtful, caring, and family oriented but one night gone wrong in the past dulled their friendship. I loved getting to see them find themselves and each other, and figure out how to express what they want. As frustrated as I was with them not telling each other how they felt, I knew that the journey would be worth it and I fully enjoyed the ride. The families and friends surrounding these two were just as well written and dynamic as the main characters. Shannon Stacey has always provided me with a solid combination of sweet and heat, and she continued that streak here. It was exactly the book I needed to shake me out of a reading slump and get me happily reading again.

Their Christmas Baby Contract is a fun and sweet romance that was exactly the escape I needed.

Who is Reyna Bishop? What does she do for a living? What do we learn about her family? Where is she located? Who is Brady Nash and what does he do for a living? Who is Lucas and what do we learn about him? Why do I find myself irritated by Lucas? I think I like Chris and Marcy! Oh boy, did this story feel like a roller coaster to me at times! At one point, I caught myself literally yelling at the characters in the book and was glad at that point that I live alone and am single. Read to see what had me yelling at the kindle in my hand!

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3.5/5 - This is a sweet romance story where two single people decide to have a baby together because they both want to have children. They agree that they're not going to be a couple, but that they will be co-parenting the child. Since Brady already loved Reyna going into the agreement, and since the two have a very short history from years ago, you can sort of see where the story is going to go. I didn't mind the predictability, though. I loved the way Reyna's friends and mother support her, similarly to the way Brady's friends and family support him. The story worked out well for Reyna and Brady, and I love the way it ended. I'm really looking forward to reading the third book in this series when it releases in a few months.

Thank you to Harlequin for the free review copy via NetGalley! These views are my own.

3.5 stars — This had a lot of cute moments, but there were just a few things that prevented it from standing out.

Brady was pretty adorable. I loved how caring he was with everyone in his life. But man, he needed to grow some balls (and I hate that phrase). I mean seriously, I was so disappointed at what little he was willing to accept in his life.

Reyna was harder to figure out for me. I think there’s just a personality difference between us, and I just can’t figure out what makes parts of her tick. Not all of her, there were parts I really enjoyed. But I just didn’t connect with her as easily as I did with Brady.

I enjoyed the sweet moments and the friendship moments between the two of them, but I will admit that the steamy scenes were a little lacking. The first one came so quickly, I hadn’t had a chance to get down with their connection…and it fell somewhere between detailed and fade to black…which is the best of no worlds. 😛

In the end I think I got frustrated with their lack of communication. Sometimes I don’t mind that as much, and sometimes my tolerance is just not enough…which is what I would characterize this read as.

I was surprised that this one didn’t take place entirely over the Christmas season. I mean, like 60% of it was, but it’s just not what I’m used to from my Christmas books.

I was also surprised that in the end I didn’t really fall in love with the town of Blackberry Bay. Usually the great thing about books in small towns are the characters and antics of the townspeople. We didn’t really get any of that. I barely got to know any secondary characters, and the damage that the gossip had done on both of our MCs just left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

So yeah. Definitely a cute read, but I needed something more to really fall in love.

Reyna and Brady have been friends since childhood, both growing up in quaint Blackberry Bay, NH. After a horrible hookup four years ago, embarrassment kept them from talking, and they drifted apart. But when Brady helps Reyna escape after a failed public proposal by her now ex boyfriend, they start to reconnect, and Reyna realizes maybe Brady is the answer to her prayers: he’d make a wonderful father. Reyna wants a baby, but not the man; Brady wants to be a father and the whole package deal with Reyna.

The premise of the book - two friends coming together to have a baby but then parting ways before the baby is born - isn’t something I’d normally pick up off the shelf; but I do love Shannon Stacey, so I decided to give it a try. I like Reyna and Brady, and I breezed through the book quickly. I love that both characters stand up for the other with friends and family - they both have negative reputations with regards to the opposite sex, but neither really lets the rumors stand in their way.

Reyna and Brady do eventually make a great couple, but they suffer from extreme lack of communication issues which draws the whole conflict out. Brady has been in love with Reyna since something like 1st grade, but thinks he blew his one chance four years ago because he was “too excited” the night they hooked up, and so he never talks to her and tells her how he feels. Later in the story, when they are fake dating and Reyna feels something is off, she runs away from Brady rather than explore their complex feelings. Time after time, there are little examples of how if one or the other just opened up a little bit; stuck around to have the conversation, they would have been a lot happier. It isn’t until nearly the very end of the book that they finally open up, and even then, it’s only after some serious outside intervention.

There is also a slightly dark side story involving Brady’s mom. I’m not really certain why it’s part of the book other than to give the fairly one-dimensional primary plot some color. I’ve got mixed feelings over the whole situation, I think because I didn’t feel it was resolved, only because I didn’t necessarily like how it was resolved.

In the end, Brady and Reyna get their HEA. Their Christmas Baby Contract is sweet and easy, giving it a Hallmark Movie feel. But I was frustrated with their complete lack of communication and willingness to forego happiness out of fear.

My Rating: B/B-

Brady is a ladies man and Reyna want a baby. Since IVF is expensive she strikes up a deal with Brady so they can have a baby without the whole mess of relationship and emotions. Thing is of course feelings start getting in the way and while they are pretending to be in a relationship it seems things are becoming real.

If you like basic contemporary romances you'll like this book. I liked the characters and the story was pretty predictable but I just couldn't help myself being hooked on it curious to see what's in store for these characters. Thought the book was overall enjoyable and if you are looking for a pretty good contemporary romance you'll enjoy this.

Good friends to lovers story. Brady and Reyna have known each other since first grade and have watched each other crash and burn on many relationships. Reyna is unaware that Brady has loved her for years, which has affected his ability to maintain a relationship with another woman. She and Brady have an embarrassing bit of history between them. A night together that didn't turn out as expected created lingering awkwardness whenever they meet. But when Reyna's latest relationship comes to a humiliating and public end, Brady is there to help.

I liked both Brady and Reyna. Brady has a reputation for being unable to stick with any relationship for long. No one realizes that Brady is searching for the one who can give him the family he wants. Brady's terrific scenes with his nephews show how wonderful he is with them and his yearning for a child of his own. Reyna is in a similar situation. She has a reputation for being "hell on men" because her relationships don't last. Reyna wants a child and has been searching for the perfect husband and father, but none of them measure up. So she decides to do it on her own.

I enjoyed the development of the relationship between Brady and Reyna. Reyna is upfront with Brady that she wants him to be the father of her baby. She doesn't want a relationship, just the baby. Brady is taken aback by the proposal. Yes, he wants a child of his own, but he also wants the family that goes with it. However, this may be the only way to get that child, so he accepts Reyna's offer. Because both are tired of being the subjects of gossip, they plan to "date" publicly, then break up sometime after Reyna gets pregnant while agreeing to co-parent the baby.

Brady jumps at the chance to spend time with the woman he loves. He knows she doesn't want a relationship with him, but he feels a small flicker of hope that maybe he can change her mind. As they spent time together on their "dates," they got to know each other's hopes and dreams. There are some sweet scenes between them, and it is obvious that their feelings have deepened. However, having made their "no relationship" demands initially, neither one knows how to go about changing it. Afraid of rejection, each keeps their feelings to themselves until Reyna gets scared of how real everything feels and forces the breakup. I ached for Brady, who had started to believe they had a future. I wanted to shake Reyna because she was rather cruel in the way she did it. I loved the ending as both of them faced their fears (with a little help). I loved Brady's bravery in laying his heart on the line and how that gave Reyna the courage to reveal hers. The scene in the gazebo was beautiful, and I loved the epilogue.

Thank you Netgalley and Harlequin for this arc.


The book centers on a “childhood friends to lovers” trope but “small town romance” and “not-secret baby” figure in, too. As the book begins, Reyna is publicly humiliated – her words – by her current boyfriend – of three months – asking her to marry him complete with jumbotron images flashing to the entire crowd of the arena. She’d thought he might be suitable – yeah, there’s a passionate description – as a father for her longed for children but she wasn’t ready to say yes so #shesaidno and there was the end of that relationship as well as his character in the book.

Brady knew immediately that this was not the way to ask Reyna to marry you. Which made me question that they’ve known each other since childhood yet she doesn’t seem to know little details like that he’s not really a ladies man. They had a horrible one night stand – or maybe it was just a 1/4 nightstand – but never, ever talked about it afterwards. He never tried for a second chance to make things right or at least give her an orgasm. He confessed to his best friend in grade school that he wanted to marry her but then makes no effort to improve her impression of him? Wuss.

Reyna’s not getting any younger, not loaded with the money needed to try artificial insemination, and depressed at the thought that she’s got to start all over again trying to find a man. She’s got standards and if sticking to them has given her the rep in town of being hard on men, well so be it. Then her brainwave hits and she knows who to ask. They are just friends, she knows his family, and she thinks they’d make a pretty baby. When Brady comes to her business to get an estimate on how much it will cost to get a classic muscle car fixed and back on the road, he gets a proposition he never expected yet can’t turn down.

It’s lucky that two orgasmic encounters later Brady’s sexual skill has been revised in Reyna’s estimation and she’s pregnant because soon these two are talking but still not communicating. There’s a complicated plan to pretend to date so the town won’t gossip about them but then break up before the baby is born. Honestly they put more effort into this than they do talking about little things like all the legal details a lawyer points out they need to discuss. Yeah, those. She’s been charting her fertile days but I’d also have liked some kind of throw away lines about how Reyna had already been to see her doctor and started taking those whopping pregnancy multivitamins or that she’d spoken with Brady about her plans to continue running her one woman business once she was in her third trimester and unable to lean far over a car. It is his baby, too. She also doesn’t seem to have thought out what her friends might start asking about her relationship with Brady.

Still, not having done any of these things gives these two more things to not communicate about. They do take to their pretend dating and start to enjoy spending time together, cooking, watching movies, discussing paint chips for the baby’s room at Brady’s house but never talking about their real feelings. But I kind of like that she isn’t suddenly besties with his sister-in-law and double yay that she’s a mechanic who runs her own garage!

Brady and Renya have great relationships with their mothers which I had fun reading about. Brady is a fantastic uncle and in watching him interact with his nephews, Reyna can see firsthand that he will be a wonderful dad. He even makes dad jokes.


It got a bit frustrating that everyone in town can see that they have feelings for each other but neither one of them will say a word. Later on when the truth comes spilling out and Reyna asks in frustration why he never said a word all these years, I could see her point as it was one that I’d thought of when the book started. Brady does, however, know the way in which Reyna would like to be proposed to and what kind of rings will work best for their professions – I’ll give him that in spades.

There is a major past family issue that needs to be resolved and I’m guessing that this will be the focus of the next book and that I know who the MCs will be. Until then, for readers who love the tropes here as well as seeing MCs who are everyday working people (truly yay!), “Their Christmas Baby Contract” is a nice follow up book in the series and I don’t feel that readers have to have read the first one. C+

Although part of a series, this can be read as a standalone story: and it's worth a read.

Brady has been in love with Reyna since they sat next to each other at first grade storytime. When her latest relationship ends but her longing to be a mom is as strong as ever, she approaches her lifelong friend with an offer.

When Reyna proposes to make a baby with Brady, fake a relationship, then break up and co-parent their child he jumps at the chance to be closer to the woman he loves.

They both don't realize how close they'll grow sharing their lives and dreams. As they get to know each other on a deeper level, they get scared to share the feelings. Can these two make it work? Can they open up and share their love for each other before it's too late? You'll want to read this book to find out.

I received a free ARC eBook from Net Galley and the publisher in exchange for my honest opinions.

So what do you get when you put together two people longing for something that keeps slipping through their fingers. You get one of the best Christmas tales of romance THEIR CHRISTMAS BABY CONTRACT by Shannon Stacey. I get to read lots of wonderfully joyous stories but Shannon Stacey has definitely upped the ante in this story that teams up two fabulous characters that are guaranteed to capture your heart.

Reyna Bishop and Brady Nash are as independent as can be. They are also flying solo for the most part with the exception of family. Each has been labeled rather unkindly by gossip as difficult in the romance department. Not complimentary in the least. Wary of gossip and yearning for something beyond their grasp Reyna and Brady enter into an odd agreement. Reyna realizes her chances of having a baby are diminishing. Brady is a sort of known commodity. They’ve been circling each other for many years. Reyna knows that Brady would be a somewhat perfect guy to father a child, her child with no strings attached.

An agreement is reached that sounds so simple. But let’s not be cavalier about having a baby. There are a lot of provisions that have to be arranged. And that’s when it starts to get sticky.
Reyna is determined to stick to her original plan. Brady on the other hand is really into this idea of being a father. His concern for her and the baby she carries is dredging up doubts. Not the least of all how she can separate her old independent life from the contract with Brady. At what cost.

They say the heart knows what it wants. Brady wants Reyna but is leery of building up hope only to once again fall flat. Reyna is truly gun shy and can’t trust her own feelings. THEIR CHRISTMAS BABY CONTRACT tugs at your heartstring for these two characters. Of course Shannon Stacey includes a ton of situations that will make you laugh. Her characters always have so much dimension, which makes them likeable, memorable and somewhat human. Great addition to the holiday season reading list.

Their Christmas Baby Contact by Shannon Stacey is the second novel in her Blackberry Bay series. The heroine and hero—Reyna and Brady strike up a mutually beneficial deal that has them pretend to date throughout the holidays with a planned ending of Reyna becoming pregnant and the couple parting ways. However, as they pretend to have a relationship and they spend more time together—they begin to realize that their relationship is more real than they planned. Shannon Stacey always delivers heartfelt, emotional, and intensely satisfying romances. This novel is another well-written jewel to add to Stacey’s catalog of wonderfully satisfying romance novels.