GRR Reviews Special Delivery (Mountain Meadow Homecomings) by Laura Browning

Special Delivery is a pretty standard "pregnant girl escapes from the crazy ex and was saved by small-town cop" contemporary romance. While the story was rather polished, the ex was too evil without any explanation, and the resolution was resolved by a third party, which is both clever... and not quite satisfactory.

Holly Morgan was dumped by her crazy ex-fiance Spence when he discovered she's pregnant. He was proposing marriage, but upon learning she's pregnant he turned it around and claimed she was entrapping him. So she left heartbroken with her little brother. Then months later Spence came back wanting the baby, apparently, after finding out his new girl, Seely (Cecilia) can't get pregnant and he needed an heir ASAP for some inheritance. After stalking her (and police wasn't helpful in enforcing the restraining order), Holly and her little brother took off in the middle of the night, and ended up in Mountain Meadow, Virginia, a quiet little town, and came to know Lt. Jake Allred of local police. Holly had been let down by police before, but when a freak snowstorm stranded them together, Jake ended up delivering her baby. Noelle. Jake was sure Holly is the girl he wanted in his life, but the problem is convincing Holly... and protecting her and the baby from Spence, who is still out there...

Spence just came across as creepy, but I'll admit the plan "sort of" makes sense when evaluated with zero emotion, i.e. "all women can be mothers" which makes Spence a sociopath. But the plan also doesn't make that much sense when evaluated to the logical extension: how is that going to square legally? It can't. Spence can't just hold up a baby and say "mine, now give me my inheritance". Thus, average rating.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: Pregnant woman being stalked by her ex for her baby escaped to a small town and rescued by local cop, but her ex followed her...

Tropes: kidnapping, evil ex, protector, woman in peril, pregnancy, small town, law enforcement

Overall Rating:  3/5