A Safe Harbor Medical Romance
Jacqueline Diamond has written 17 Safe Harbor Medical Romances since 2010 releasing from 2-3 books per year. Amazing! You’d think the quality of the work would be slip-shod at best, but if book one, The Would-Be Mommy, is an example, expect excellence all the way through, for this novel sets the tone for the books that will follow.
The story is set in Southern California where the “Safely Surrendered Baby Law” passed in 2001. This law encourages women to leave their new-born in a safe place, such as at a hospital, rather than abandoning them in a dangerous location. Diamond saw potential for a romantic book series revolving around these homeless infants.
In book one of the Safe Harbor series, we first meet protagonist Ian Martin, a writer for Flash News/Global, an international media company. He has covered wars from Africa to Afghanistan, but this time he finds himself in the plush hospital lobby of Safe Harbor Medical Center covering a human-interest story. His job—cover the official re-opening of an updated, expanded maternity hospital. During his visit, Ian enters a raffle for expensive baby furnishings (which he wins), and interviews the hospital’s public relations officer, Jennifer Serra. When questioned about the hospital being a safe haven for mothers of unwanted babies, Jennifer says, “I’d do anything I could to help her.”
Ian’s video of the interview goes viral and seen by Sunny on the Internet. She is a teenage mom lacking resources to raise baby Rosalie, so she takes her infant daughter to the medical center and hands her child to Jennifer saying, “I can’t keep her. I want you to be her mother now.”
Could this be the human-interest story Ian has been seeking to catapult him into his own column? Jennifer agrees to take Rosalie home for the weekend and Ian helps them settle in with the furnishings he won in the raffle. The meeting between Ian and Jennifer with Rosalie as the fulcrum is the lift off point of this excellent romance novel.
Author Jacqueline Diamond does an superb job in delving into the minds of her characters so readers can understand their perspective; but not too good to eliminate the wonderful surprises that pop up throughout the book. If you are astute, you’ll notice the author preps minor characters for a major role in a book planned just for them later in the series.
The Would-be Mommy is the opening ticket to a series romance lovers won’t be able to put down.
About the Author
Jacqueline Diamond is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedies, medical romances, and mysteries. She has written more than 100 titles and has been honored with a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and is a two-time Rita Award finalist. You can learn more about the author on her website at jacquelinediamond.net.
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Sounds like a good romantic novel.