The Baby Bargain

This is a very good book about love the first and second time around Dana is a single mother raising her baby daughter and teen step-son Sean after her husband died in a skiing accident. Rafe is a single father of a teenage daughter named Zoe. Sean and Zoe know each other from school and the night of a school dance something happens. Zoe takes Sean to an abandoned plane and tells him that she does not want to go to Harvard a virgin. Several months go by and one night Rafe comes home from a date to find Zoe home from a friend's house. She was getting groceries, and when she trips she sends the bags flying upending a pregnancy test. Rafe hits the roof and goes out looking for Sean to yell at him. Things calm down after a while though and Dana and Rafe try to come up with a way to make the baby work. Rafe comes up with an idea of him and Dana getting married and then when Zoe has the baby letting them raise the baby. At first Dana is not to keen on that idea, but after Dana receives a threat from Sean's biological mother to take Sean away from her she decides to take Rafe up on the offer because he has the money it would take to fight her. Dana and Rafe get married and Rafe sends Zoe away to spend some time with her great-Aunt so that she could be away from Sean. Several months go by and Sean runs away so that he can be with Zoe. Also during this time things start heating up with Dana and Rafe even thought they fought against anything happening between then. Dana and Rafe go in search of him and find him with his maternal grandfather. Afterwards they go to a hotel and stay for several days before going home and picking up Zoe on the way. Several months later Zoe gives birth to Peter Raphael and then gives him up before going on an educational experience on the sea before going away to Harvard.

This story got under my skin and really touched my heart. I liked the way this author treated teenagers like real people. I liked the way she paused during the story to make touching insights. It was original and uplifting. I felt better about life after I read it.

This is one emotionally packed story you will not want to miss. In this story two young teenage best friends "experiment" with sex 3 months before she is to go to Harvard, which results in a pregnacy. This awesome story unfolds as this emotionally troubled young man's widowed stepmom, and his pregnant girlfriend's widowed father struggle with the situation. The author, Peggy Nicholson, did a tremedous job bringing all of the aspects of this story together, from a stepmom desperately trying to reach her troubled stepson, who he blames for his father's death, to a Father who so desperately wants to prevent his teenage daughter from making the same mistakes he did. This book held no dissapointments. It was awesome from the first page, to the breathtaking and emotional final paragraph. Definately a keeper!