Silhouette Special #1025: The Father of Her Child

I love the Baby Bet series. If you have read the other books you know how close the MacAllister clan is and how in every book there is mention of Ted, Ryan's partner on the police force. Now we finally get to meet Ted in this book. Ted is very much a bachelor until he meets his very pregnant next door neighbor and decides to do the honorable thing and help her out. Of course, his neighbor Hannah is cautious because of her distrust towards men. Here she was a divorced pregnant woman and she was to believe that her hunk of a next door neighbor liked her. Ted has his work cut out for him, but that does not mean that he wants a future with Hannah-how can he when she will toss him out when she finds out his secret? So, he has to get rid of her right after the baby is born so that she never finds out the truth, but is that possible? I love that Ted can so openly care for this pregnant woman and another mans baby. The "secret" that he keeps drives me nuts because the reader knows that Hannah loves him and it will not matter to her, but Ted is so stubborn. The Baby bet comes into play in this book as in all the others. Only if you have read the other books you know that Forrest is the champion, but you will be suprised to find that he is dethrowned in this book. This was a nice addition to the series.