A Stable Account - Sandi Haddad
TITLE: A Stable Account
AUTHOR: Sandi Haddad
ISBN: 1-59279-156-5
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
PUBLISHER: Amber Quill Press
REVIEWED FOR/RATING: Enchanted In Romance Reviews/5 Unicorns
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Maggie Newman left Magnolia Cove years ago when she eloped with her boyfriend, Chad Newman. Now she is moving back, pregnant and widowed. Her husband was killed in a road accident several months ago whilst going to see his brother during a storm. Her late husband’s family are unaware that she is expecting Chad’s baby, since she did not realise she was pregnant until after her husband’s funeral. She has been unable to contact Chad’s parents since the funeral, as they are on holiday. One of Maggie’s reasons for returning to the town she left so long ago is so that they can be a part of their grandchild’s life. Upon her return, she plans to open up a tack shop and live above it. Unfortunately, the living space over the shop is much too small to use as living quarters, especially for a woman beginning the third trimester of pregnancy. Her niece, Jenny, asks her father, Daniel, and Maggie why she can’t stay at their ranch with them; after all, they have plenty of room. But Maggie wants to try to get a place of her own before she moves to Magnolia and decides to keep looking. When she takes over the care of Jenny whilst Daniel is immersed in tax season, a busy time for him in his job as a self-employed accountant, Daniel asks Maggie to move in for the duration. As she is looking after Jenny and needs somewhere to live for the time being, as she still hasn’t found anywhere suitable, she accepts Daniel’s offer. What she hadn’t counted on was her growing attraction to her brother-in-law. Or her change in feelings towards him. But will her attraction and growing love lead anywhere? Or will the memory of her late husband remain a barrier between them?
Daniel has loved Maggie for years. Through his growing up years, through her dating and marriage to his brother, through his own marriage to his ex-wife. But she chose Chad, and he decided against fighting for her, instead playing childish pranks in an attempt to break them up, which didn’t work. When she married his brother, he put his feelings to one side, rarely visiting her and his brother during their marriage. But now she has moved back to Magnolia, alone and pregnant. Despite himself, hope flairs. Hope that maybe he has a chance with her. Hope that she’ll need him. Hope that she will love him, as he loves her. Having her move into his home enables him to get close to her, giving him much needed contact with her. But his guilt over his feelings towards the woman he still views as his late brother’s wife prevents him from acting on his feelings, along with his uncertainty that she feels anything for him in return other than sisterly. Will this pair ever get together? Will Jenny gain a loving step-mother, in addition to a loving aunt and a new cousin? Will Daniel’s parents accept them as a couple?
Sandi Haddad has written a heart-warming story about two people who are faced with a second chance at a love that they passed up the first time around. The basics of this storyline are classic romance: boy loves girl, girl has feelings for boy, boy doesn’t act on his feelings and girl ends up with someone else, then years later they both get together, having found one another again. Being a die-hard romance fan, this is just my type of story. This more traditional tale, whilst different to the new plotlines making their entrances on the e-book scene, deserves just as much attention and accreditation. Beautifully written, Ms Haddad’s characters are well developed and easily related to. The way in which they continually misinterpret each others actions and the assumptions they make about each others feelings towards one another makes you want to kick them in the behind and tell them to get their act together. What seems so obvious to you, that they are destined to be together, they are wholly oblivious to (yes, I know this is fiction *sigh*). Ms Haddad successfully proves that a romance need not contain explicit sex scenes to be all that we want a romance to be. It is not hard to understand why Ms Haddad is an award winning author.
AUTHOR: Sandi Haddad
ISBN: 1-59279-156-5
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
PUBLISHER: Amber Quill Press
REVIEWED FOR/RATING: Enchanted In Romance Reviews/5 Unicorns
BUY A STABLE ACCOUNT HERE
Maggie Newman left Magnolia Cove years ago when she eloped with her boyfriend, Chad Newman. Now she is moving back, pregnant and widowed. Her husband was killed in a road accident several months ago whilst going to see his brother during a storm. Her late husband’s family are unaware that she is expecting Chad’s baby, since she did not realise she was pregnant until after her husband’s funeral. She has been unable to contact Chad’s parents since the funeral, as they are on holiday. One of Maggie’s reasons for returning to the town she left so long ago is so that they can be a part of their grandchild’s life. Upon her return, she plans to open up a tack shop and live above it. Unfortunately, the living space over the shop is much too small to use as living quarters, especially for a woman beginning the third trimester of pregnancy. Her niece, Jenny, asks her father, Daniel, and Maggie why she can’t stay at their ranch with them; after all, they have plenty of room. But Maggie wants to try to get a place of her own before she moves to Magnolia and decides to keep looking. When she takes over the care of Jenny whilst Daniel is immersed in tax season, a busy time for him in his job as a self-employed accountant, Daniel asks Maggie to move in for the duration. As she is looking after Jenny and needs somewhere to live for the time being, as she still hasn’t found anywhere suitable, she accepts Daniel’s offer. What she hadn’t counted on was her growing attraction to her brother-in-law. Or her change in feelings towards him. But will her attraction and growing love lead anywhere? Or will the memory of her late husband remain a barrier between them?
Daniel has loved Maggie for years. Through his growing up years, through her dating and marriage to his brother, through his own marriage to his ex-wife. But she chose Chad, and he decided against fighting for her, instead playing childish pranks in an attempt to break them up, which didn’t work. When she married his brother, he put his feelings to one side, rarely visiting her and his brother during their marriage. But now she has moved back to Magnolia, alone and pregnant. Despite himself, hope flairs. Hope that maybe he has a chance with her. Hope that she’ll need him. Hope that she will love him, as he loves her. Having her move into his home enables him to get close to her, giving him much needed contact with her. But his guilt over his feelings towards the woman he still views as his late brother’s wife prevents him from acting on his feelings, along with his uncertainty that she feels anything for him in return other than sisterly. Will this pair ever get together? Will Jenny gain a loving step-mother, in addition to a loving aunt and a new cousin? Will Daniel’s parents accept them as a couple?
Sandi Haddad has written a heart-warming story about two people who are faced with a second chance at a love that they passed up the first time around. The basics of this storyline are classic romance: boy loves girl, girl has feelings for boy, boy doesn’t act on his feelings and girl ends up with someone else, then years later they both get together, having found one another again. Being a die-hard romance fan, this is just my type of story. This more traditional tale, whilst different to the new plotlines making their entrances on the e-book scene, deserves just as much attention and accreditation. Beautifully written, Ms Haddad’s characters are well developed and easily related to. The way in which they continually misinterpret each others actions and the assumptions they make about each others feelings towards one another makes you want to kick them in the behind and tell them to get their act together. What seems so obvious to you, that they are destined to be together, they are wholly oblivious to (yes, I know this is fiction *sigh*). Ms Haddad successfully proves that a romance need not contain explicit sex scenes to be all that we want a romance to be. It is not hard to understand why Ms Haddad is an award winning author.
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