Borrowed Babies

Award-winning writer Jill Christman, pregnant for the first time and feeling none too optimistic about it, tells of a journey back in time to discover what it really means to be a mother.

She'd once been his world. Now, she'll be his wife. Luc Cavallo runs a multimillion-dollar business. He handles crises without blinking. Until the woman he once loved appears in his office, looking as beautiful as she did a decade ago. Holding someone else's baby and asking Luc for protection. No one who knows his history with Hattie Parker would blame him if he kicked her out. But he won't be cruel, not with a child involved. So, he'll play Daddy to Hattie's adopted child. And then he'll finally have Hattie where he wants her--in his bed, wearing his ring...

Two fan-favorite stories of powerful men…wrapped around their babies' little fingers The Billionaire's Borrowed Baby by Janice Maynard Luc Cavallo runs a multimillion-dollar business and handles crises without blinking. Until the woman he once loved, Hattie Parker, appears in his office, looking as beautiful as she did a decade ago. Holding someone else's baby and asking Luc for protection. Sure, he'll play Daddy to her adopted child. Then he'll finally have Hattie where he wants her…. Baby Business by Katherine Garbera Donovan Tolley has to marry to keep his family's company, and Cassidy Franzone is the woman he wants. But when he finds his former lover, she's almost nine months pregnant! The baby has to be his. But convincing Cassidy to marry him without love on the table is one negotiation this cunning billionaire might not win….

TEMPORARY DADDY No woman could resist a single dad with a toddler in tow. At least, that was what journalist Nick Hansen set out to prove for his article on dating. So in the name of research, the confirmed bachelor borrowed his two-year-old nephew and became instant daddy. But Nick never counted on meeting someone like beautiful Shannon McEvoy. From the moment she rescued his runaway "son," sparks flew between Nick and the feisty redhead, providing the perfect opportunity to explore his theory up close. Trouble was, Nick had fallen for his pretty subject. How could he ever convince Shannon his feelings were real when everything else she knew about him was anything but?

Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.

THE BABY OF THE MONTH EXPECTANT BRIDE… Dr. Sheila Pollack was a mom-to-be, and her due date had arrived. But there was no daddy—no husband—in sight! One night with Slade Garrett had changed her life forever. And now, nine months later, she was about to deliver their love child—alone. But then the expectant dad burst through the emergency room doors proposing marriage! And somewhere between her huffs and puffs, Sheila managed to say, "I do." Could she hope that their nick-of-time nuptials would last forever? THE BABY OF THE MONTH CLUB: For five moms-to-be, finding the perfect daddy is only a due date away!