Hey, you guys, isn’t this cover kind of pretty? It’s all yellow and the cover models are people (I think) and there’s a rubber ducky in the male’s back pocket (awww) and there’s no man-titty anywhere. It’s a change of pace from all the horrible CGI covers we’ve been subjected to lately. It’s nice and romantic and pleasant… it just makes you want to pick it up and look at it, even though you wouldn’t read it because it’s a stupid “confirmed bachelor who falls in love with a woman pregnant with another man’s child” story. It’s covers like this that melt my cynical little heart, you know. Pleasant (but boring) this cover is, however, we all know what we’re going to find inside. After all, how many variations of the “confirmed bachelor who falls in love with a woman pregnant with another man’s child” story could there be? I mean, these things practically write themselves nowadays. How else can you explain why there are so many of them in the world of Harlequin romance? So let’s play a little game, shall we? And don’t go hot-footin’ it to Amazon to find out what it’s about, either! Oh, and you’re not allowed to play if you’ve already read it.

The male love interest is:
a) the bad boy who never paid attention to the heroine when they were in high school, but is suddenly in love with the heroine because she’s so “brave and plucky” and he secretly thinks that pregnant chicks are hot
b) the platonic best friend that our heroine has never seen as anything but a brother, a confidante, or an emergency date
c) the coldly arrogant, but secretly warm-hearted boss that the heroine has a secret crush on, but has always been intimidated by, who turns out to be a kind, honorable man who offers to marry the heroine because he doesn’t want her to be an unwed mother

The father of the baby is:
a) the ridiculously jerky dickwad ex-boyfriend of the heroine who was so ridiculously jerky that you gotta wonder what kind of moron the heroine had to be to have dated and gotten impregnated by him
b) the kind, noble, absolutely perfect dead husband of the heroine who was the best friend of the new male love interest and his former competition for the affections of the heroine (the dead guy won)
c) the male love interest on the cover; he was a sperm bank donor who also just happens to be the boss of the heroine and has always been in love with her

The female love interest is:
a) a shy, timid woman who is impregnated by her ridiculously jerky boyfriend after she tells him she’s pregnant and is unceremoniously dumped soon afterward; she didn’t have a father of her own, either, so with plucky courage, she is determined the raise the baby on her own
b) a hard-working junior partner at a law firm who never had time for “love” when she was younger because she was hard at work at law school who now realizes that she has a hole in her life because she doesn’t have a baby, so she goes to a sperm bank
c) a happy-go-lucky “modern” woman who gets drunk with her platonic male best friend one night, has sex with him, and because they were both so drunk, neither of them remember what happened. The next night, she has bad, horrible sex with her date, then finds out weeks later that she’s pregnant, so she thinks the father of the baby is the guy she had bad sex with

Thanks to Amber for this adorable cover!

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