mmmph. First - I'd read this before, I recognized it when I started. Second - I really do not like Pickart's style. She also wrote The Parker Project which was by far the worst of the Family Secrets books I've read - and for much the same reasons as this book.
So she decides that what she wants is a kid - total focus on the kid. Also, Do Not Want a workaholic man. Then she falls into bed with him - twice. Oh, and incidentally they get married to solve a visa problem (I'm an FSB, it doesn't work like that. Though the author did say that wasn't true to life in a foreword). Puppets dancing on the author's strings - not exactly cardboard, it's worse. Strong characterization totally ignored whenever the author needs them to do something out of character.
It's a great pity - I like family series. I'll even give it one more try and read another MacAllister book. But I think I'll be putting Pickart on my 'don't bother' list. ( )