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Available
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Publication
Harlequin (2001), Paperback, 304 pages
Description
His child...or hers? NYPD detective Hank Ballantyne figures that for a single father, he has his life running pretty smoothly. Until a woman appears on Hank's doorstep saying she is his adopted son's mother--and she wants her son back. Dr. Natalie Lawson had been separated from her son during a devastating earthquake in Guatemala. Hospitalized and badly injured, she'd had no idea that her child had been mistakenly identified as an orphan and brought to the United States for adoption. Now that she's found Robbie, she wants to be a part of his life again--and that means becoming a part of Hank Ballantyne's life, too....
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Quite nice! The situation is - well, contrived, but not beyond possibility. And they don't just fall into bed and love as a solution - they actually have to work out difficulties, consider alternatives, consider each other...Very solid characters, including Robbie; he's not a wiseman in a child
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suit, but a realistic small child. There's a throwaway line in there that I really like, on two levels - at that point, it seems like Natalie is doing all the compromising (for True Love, but still), when Hank says "I don't think there's much call for an English-speaking homicide detective in {Guatamala}..." Not only does it show he's thinking of where he can compromise too; that's a book/series I'd love to read. The American homicide cop, on summer vacation with his son, daughter, and doctor wife...gets mixed up in something-or-other in the small town where she's working her summers. I don't think it's been written, but I'd read it...Again, these are solid characters, not just one-shots. I'll be looking for more by this author. Show Less
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Original publication date
2001
Physical description
304 p.; 6.4 inches
ISBN
0373709935 / 9780373709939
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