Title: Kiss of Desire
Author: Amy Sparks
Date: 2024
Publisher: Amy Sparks
Length: 77 pages
Quote: "We were made for sharing the raising of a child."
Jeanie and Derrick got careless in high school and started a baby. Derrick's immediate reaction was almost unpardonable; then his parents found out and whisked him away before he could come to his senses and beg for pardon. Jeanie's parents threw her out of the house. Jeanie knew she was lucky to find foster parents for herself and the baby, separately. She finished school and worked in New York City until she thought the baby would be old enough to wonder about its birth mother. She never even heard her baby's name.
Jason, the foster father of Jeanie's daughter, knows the girl needs a mother-figure. Because this is a Romance as used to be marketed in contrast to a Novel, the first single woman he meets is not only attractive to him, but also his foster daughter's real mother. In a Romance there is only one way this can end.
However, the story does leave one loose end out to lead into a sequel. After Jeanie has met Jason there's no chance of her being really interested in another man, but she does notice a nice one--Tobe, not as in Tobias but as in Tobechukwu. In a Novel the purpose of introducing a character just long enough to let him explain his African name would be to lock in a part for a Black actor in the movie. A 77-page romance e-book isn't likely to be made into a movie and in any case, in a Romance, the purpose of introducing an unattached young person is to promote the sequel about that character's romance.
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