His Baby Bond by Lee Tobin McLair

Oh good god I can't even believe this is on my list.  In a desperate attempt to find something to read when my credit card on file on my Nook had expired and I did not have the energy to go to the library or Barnes'n'Noble or even the paperback aisle at Cub I ordered a free book on the Nook.  In the spirit of you get what you pay for boy did I ever.  This book was everything that I abhor in a novel...a predictable plot, substandard writing, a Christian theme (if the author wrote one more line about a "longing look" I thought I was going to puke) and not much to admire.  It had all the makings of a classic cheap, cheesy romance and if you threw a half naked Fabio on the front with an adorable baby dangling in his arms the package would have been complete.  As it was, the guy on the cover was mostly dressed because, you know, God.  And the story was such standard fair that I could have come up with it in my sleep when I was 13.  Now, I don't mean to disparage the author because hey, there is clearly an audience for this drivel and more power to her for finding an audience and meeting their needs. But seriously?  Don't waste your time.  Then again, there are four books in this little "series" and I will have to admit in the interests of full disclosure that I did read the first chapter of the next book since it was tucked in the end as a teaser so maybe I am not as displeased with this as I say I am...

Firm # 8:  Only As a Last Resort