Understandably, she’s nervous of relationships – and of interactions with strangers of any kind – and is less than pleased when Dale shows up to drop off their son.ĭale is struck by Rebecca, who is very unlike the women she usually dates, and decides to help out her new friends by making some basic repairs around the house and to Rebecca’s car, so that they can resume a more normal life. Now that both her parents are dead, she lives a reclusive life under a new name with her gifted son, their routine broken by a few local friends who pop in from time to time. After her father was convicted of massive prescription drug fraud and involvement in organised crime, she was briefly a media sensation, thanks to a tabloid expose by an ex-girlfriend. Rebecca Harper is a freelance photographer, who is unable to travel at the moment and so is at risk of losing the majority of her client base. The lad turns out to be a computer genius, who has hacked into the database of the clinic in order to find his biological parents and enlist their help his mother is pregnant with his full sibling, but complications are preventing her from working and their house is rapidly falling into a worse state of disrepair than it was in when they first moved there. So, when a ten-year-old boy shows up at one of the garages she runs, claiming to be her son, she is understandably taken aback. However, this time it’s not so much a secret baby (or secret baby-to-be and secret preteen) as a secret mother that’s the main crux of the issue.ĭale McGuire always knew that donating her eggs to a fertility clinic meant that one day the resulting children might contact her she just didn’t expect the event to take place until one or other of them reached adulthood. I do like to see well-worn tropes given a new twist, in this case the Secret Baby story. Stevie‘s review of Unexpected by Jenny FrameĬontemporary Lesbian Romance published by Bold Strokes Books 15 Aug 17

Unexpected by jenny frame