Blurb: It was supposed to be one night to feel alive after getting out of a dud of a relationship. Now I’m having a baby, and I only have the soon-to-be dad’s first name. After my breakup, I need to find a job and place to live, but I can’t move into the house my grandma left me unless I’m married. Fortunately, the guy renting the place doesn’t know that, so I stop by and find out if he can move at the end of his lease. Only when the door opens, it’s him. My one-night stand. I do the only reasonable thing possible. I tell him we’re going to have a baby and promptly puke over the railing of the porch. Next thing I know, I’m on his couch, and he’s demanding a paternity test. Except he doesn’t just want the test. He wants to make sure I don’t tamper with the results. He doesn’t believe me. Apparently showing up jobless and homeless to persuade him to move doesn’t make me trustworthy. Guess I’m not the only one with a dating history that leaves me jaded. He insists I stay in the house that should be mine, right where he can monitor me. And the longer I’m around him, the more I can see that below his gruff exterior is a softie who planted acres of pumpkins for his cousin. A guy who wants to reconnect with his family. A man who makes me want to be more to him than violet promises.
Review: This book may very well end up on my 2025 top spicy romance book picks!
This book really hits the spot if you’re looking for a surprise pregnancy romance where the guy doesn’t believe the baby is his. Evander was skeptical about the baby being his for a good half of the book after having a one-night stand at the beginning of the book and using protection. The sad thing is that this sort of thing is not new to Evander. He trusted a woman once before who falsely told him she was having his baby, and it affected his ability to trust.
As if that isn’t enough of an obstacle to HEA, Violet had just left a boyfriend who isolated her from her family and made her feel like she wasn’t good enough and strung her along for years. She’s supposedly from out of town when they met and when she suddenly shows up on the porch of his rental, he thinks she somehow targeted him to pass some other guy’s baby off on.
The book is incredibly well written and gets off to a great start with Violet showing up unannounced with morning sickness on his steps and Evander instantly on alert for her scheming. Even though Evander frequently makes comments that make it clear he doesn’t think the baby is his, he’s exactly the kind of guy you’d want to have a surprise baby with after a one-night stand, minus the skepticism.
One of the things I loved about it was that not only did the main characters have great chemistry but the MFC is a highly educated woman with a master’s degree in Chemistry. The MMC was a retired First Sergeant and supposed Barron heir with a million dollars. No one can figure out why he’s not spending it and instead is growing pumpkins on his rental property.
I wouldn’t take off any stars for the growing pumpkins, but I did find that annoying and didn’t quite understand why he is growing pumpkins for his cousin. Maybe if I had read other books from the author I might know what is going on with that.
Spice level is only 3 1/2 because although there are descriptive scenes, there are not a lot of them.
I highly recommend this book to anyone in the mood to read a somewhat angsty surprise pregnancy book where the characters are older. He’s in his mid-40s and never thought he’d have kids and she’s in her mid-30s.
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