Aha! Light dawns. I was talking about the first Throne of Judar book, “The Desert Lord’s Baby.” Cross purposes here. And definitely my bad.

Nope, in that book, “The Greek Prince’s Chosen Wife,” we have a turkey baster baby. Villain (not a spoiler) is the heroine’s stepsister, the ex of the hero. You just have to go along with the story, I find. I thought the villain was a bit weak, actually, I would have liked her internal motivations a bit clearer. She did it well enough to make the villain believable, and there’s only so much you can do in 50,000 words, but sometimes in these books the villain, if there is one, can be a let-down.

But Ivy is expecting Damian’s child — as a surrogate mother! The arrogant Greek is furious, but he’s not about to let Ivy go. After all, he missed the pleasure of bedding her to conceive his baby…”

From above (The Greek Prince’s Chosen Wife)

Where? Now don’t get me wrong, this could easily be me, because I’m just about getting my brain back after the horrendous bout of flu. They had a torrid affair, but she did it under false pretences, and because of that, she thought he wouldn’t welcome her or her baby.
Are there any in vitro Harlequin books? Just wonderin’.
Anyway, I did say the plot was a bit daft, what made these books enjoyable was the characters and the way they reacted to the situations.
But I did read other Harlequins where I wanted to slap the hero around because he behaved like a pig until the last couple of pages. If I’d been the heroine, I would have told him where to put his multibillion millions and his Lear jets and walked away from what I thought was an unhealthy relationship.
Interesting having a pure diet of Harlequin for a few days. I now have some favourite writers, and some I wouldn’t touch again.
And please, please, Harlequin, take that blasted DRM off the ebooks! I can’t use them, because I mainly read ebooks on my Ipaq on Mobipocket, and I can’t convert the files if I bought them in a different format.

One torrid night of passion – or rather, six weeks, and she went home, didn’t tell him she was pregnant.
The whole secret baby plot hinges on that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This one did, just about.

Inquiring minds want to know…