A surprise pregnancy looms large in this will-they-won’t-they romance from the USA Today–bestselling author of Having Her Boss’s Baby. When Jenny Marshall meets gaming tycoon Mike Ryan, she thinks she’s met The One. But when he realizes she’s his competitor’s niece he believes she’s spying on him. Jenny thinks she’s done with Mike . . . until she gets a new job—and he’s her boss! His angelic-looking employee is more temptation than Mike can resist—even if he still can’t trust her. Now, she’s pregnant with his baby. Is she playing the most elaborate game of all . . . or could mother and child be his if only he opens his guarded heart? “Reading this novel you may think you are being transported into a love story with a bit of a different point of view. Overall this is a great story full of complications and ending with a love stronger than time.” —Harlequin Junkie

The stick turned blue on Jane Dawson’s pregnancy test just in time to stop her biological clock from running wild. But there was just one small problem—she’d unwittingly thrown her former flame into daddyhood!

As an author I have found that just watching what goes on around me or in my own life I can come up with a novel. Letters to the Abused I wrote as self help as I was in a tough relationship it was a form of healing for me, The Love Triangle was based on a life of someone close to me. Names were changed to protect others. This novel The Shattered Heart reaches out to the teens and parents of teens as to what happens when children have children. I have a preteen grand daughter and a teen step daughter I feel that this would help them to know what not to do. That boys are not worth an education or a friendship being ruined. While some may be able to bounce back and make a choice to put the child up for adoption some feel they want to raise their child and quit school. We live in an age where parents both work or there is only one parent children are being left alone and have no supervision or if they do they may be in a situation with a death of a parent and this makes them search for what is missing.

Edited by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi. Introduction by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi. Text by Michael Smith, Mike Kelley, Jay Sanders, Ingrid Schaffner, Regine Basha.

Originally published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, as part of the Fieldwork encounters and discoveries series.

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