Pregnant shopkeeper Jillian Wilson prepares for single parenthood until high-risk security specialist Derrick Harris, the baby’s father, is caught in an explosion that changes everything.
Confused, Derrick returns to the States with amnesia. Jillian believes she has it all a husband, a baby, a perfect life, to bad that her dreams hang on Derrick’s faulty memory and a lie.
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"A pregnancy plan?" Derek’s words came from directly behind her. She could feel his breath on her neck, his eyes boring into her back.
"Yes, a plan on how to get pregnant." The frustration and anger began to build within her. Jillian gathered her shaking hands around her cup and willed them to be still. "Look, Derek, I don’t mean to sound rude, but it really is none of your business what I do. I’m not involved with Jason."
She saw his unwillingness to cooperate by the slight narrowing of his eyes. "You can rest assured that I am not going to break up your brother, Jason and Kelly." Jillian glanced back out the window and took a sip from her drink. "And my plan is none of your concern."
She jumped when she felt Derek’s hand on her shoulder. "What is it you’re afraid of?"
Jillian turned and pushed past him. She didn’t want nor need his sympathy. Out of space with the door in front of her, she pivoted on the heels of her Nikes. "I’m not afraid of anything. I know what I want and I have come up with a plan to get it."
Professional Reviews
Review from Fallen Angel Review
http://www.fallenangelreviews.com/2007/September/RachelC-PregnancyPlan.htm
After the death of her father, Gillian starts thinking about her future. She wants a child. Without a husband or even the glimmer of one on the horizon, she comes up with the ‘pregnancy plan’. Only she’s confided in the wrong man and after leaving a message for him, his brother Derek, who also happens to be her ex, gets the wrong idea and sets out to stop her from messing up his brother’s life.
Derek gets more than he bargains for when he storms into Gillian’s hotel room. Not only is the situation not what he thought, the attraction he felt for her a year ago hasn’t gone away. After listening to what Gillian wants, he offers to give it to her. With the weekend almost over Derek wants their bargain to be more. Gillian doesn’t but before they can sort it out Derek is called back to work in the Middle East. Walking out he leaves her, if she won’t marry him now he’ll get her to marry him when he gets back.
When an accident robs Derek of his memory and he begins to ask for his wife, Gillian is faced with having to lie. She loves Derek too much to risk his health by denying the one thing he does remember. But what will happen when he finds out she’s lied to him? Will she be able to convince him she did it for love?
Pregnancy Plan is a great read. The chemistry between Gillian and Derek is there from the minute they’re in the same room and the level of intimacy grows with every second they spend together. I loved the way they try to keep things to what they’d planned. Tina Gayle has a way with words that brings the emotions Gillian feels about lying to the top of the page. She also does a great job of bringing Derek to life. With the accident making him more closed off then normal, the emotional push and pull that Gillian goes through in her attempt to get to him on a deeper level is fabulous to watch and feel. Tina Gayle does well to keep the black cloud of Gillian’s lie and Derek’s memory loss hovering above them. Her words bring Derek to life, keeping him the emotionally contained man he is can often be hard to do but Tina Gayle does it brilliantly. Pregnancy Plan is not only a book I enjoyed but I couldn’t put it down. I wanted to know when the lie would blow up in their faces and what would happen when it did. I loved this book and I’m looking forward to seeing what Tina Gayle comes up with next.
