Dinca’s review of Marriage by Solution by Megan Kelly
Contemporary Romance published by Harlequin American Romance 3 May 11
This is a good story with singles, family, and no whining – even from the kids. I thoroughly enjoyed this tale and it is believable to boot. Megan Kelly does a wonderful job of setting the stage for more to come, one chapter after the next.
After being abandoned by the father of her child and her parents who want her to not have her baby, Tara Montgomery takes off and starts a new life for her and her son. She works at a children’s day care while she furthers her education. After a picture of her is discovered by her son’s paternal grandparents, they start a custody battle over her son.
Dylan Ross has just discovered he has been a father for four years. His ex-girlfriend’s mother calls and asks him if he is coming to the funeral and what his plans are for his daughter. After bringing his daughter home and to his mother’s day care for assistance, he discovers his daughter bonding with Tara more so than his mother or himself.
Dylan is at his wit’s end. The emotional trauma to his daughter is heartbreaking. He calls the one person his daughter seems to trust. With Tara’s help he realizes he needs more of her time than a few hours here and there. He offers her a live-in job as his nanny.
Tara knows how difficult it is to be a single parent, even without the extra trauma, but she cannot help Dylan. No way can she be a live-in anything with any single man and keep her son out of the clutches of his paternal grandparents.
The marriage solution seems to be the answer to both of their problems. She gets the appearance of a steady home life and a two-income world for her court battle and Dylan gets a stable environment for his daughter with the one person she has forged a bond.
In this world you can rarely make everyone happy, but it is nice to read about. I did enjoy the story and it is very well written. I will have to go back and pick up Dylan’s brother’s story, which was released in 2008, so I will have to hunt for that one.
If you are having a bad day, pick up a copy of this one and sit and relax. You will be glad you did.
Grade: A
Tara Montgomery is nobody’s fool. She’s known love ’em and leave ’em types before—heck, she was left pregnant by one.
There’s no way charming Dylan Ross can tempt her into anything. Except the womanizing bachelor has more in common with Tara than she’d like. He’s just
discovered he’s a father to a four-year-old girl. Single parenthood is tough, and Dylan needs the daycare employee’s help.But Tara has her own problems. In a vicious custody battle, a high school diploma and empty bank account are no defense. Throw in “single working mother,”
and Tara could lose her son. That’s the only reason she’s considering Dylan’s outlandish proposal. Marriage may be their only solution, but Tara is going into
it with her eyes open. Her son has to come first—no matter what her heart wants.Read an excerpt.
