Father, Meet Son Safe Harbor obstetrician Adrienne Cavill couldn't love her nephew more if he were her own child. And no deadbeat dad is going to claim the little boy she practically raised. Detective-turned-P.I. Wade Hunter has missed five years of his son's life and nothing's chasing him away this time. That includes the pretty doctor who's giving his child everything--except the father he needs. Now that she knows the reasons why he left, how can Adrienne keep Wade from his son, who's over the moon about having his dad in his life? The rugged ex-cop's having a similar effect on her. W
Will Christmas bring Adrienne the family she never thought she could have? AMAZON LINK
4 STARS
This was an enjoyable story with interesting main characters and a good supporting cast of a family like community. Adrienne and Wade both come with their own kind of baggage. Dysfunctional childhoods of different kinds of pain. Wade had a good childhood until he hit his teens and his mother left. She was the one who had given Wade some good memories until alcoholism weakened his father even more. Wade knew that particular sickness ran in his family. He remembers that chaos of family life and how he had to be the adult before his time. His father and grandfather were quite the negative kind of influence towards each other. His grandfather was one critical, sarcastic person so often finding fault with Wade no matter what he did. I could see why he did a hard pass when it came to spending time around him.
Adrienne had chaos in her life growing up too but it came from mental illness in several family members. That included her sister and it fell to Adrienne to be the grown up; the fixer in the family. Some now as adults both of the main characters liked to have a clean, orderly house. Both also shared the same kind of survivors guilt and the need to try to fix things.
A sure scene stealer would be Reggie, Wade's son. He added a lot to the story and he was quite the character.
There is just the right touch of challenges set in a clean developing romance. It also has a satisfying H.E.A.
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