Maybe Baby by Lani Diane Rich

A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

MAYBE BABY

Author: Lani Diane Rich ISBN: 0446615781 6/2005 CONTEMPORARY Publisher: WARNER FOREVER

DANA WILEY'S TRUE CONFESSIONS

(Or How Did I Get into This Mess?)

My mother's being held by kidnappers, and only Nick Maybe, the man I left at the altar six years ago, knows how to find the ransom-a big, smelly, flightless parrot.

Manhattan isn't exactly ideal for wildlife-unless you're talking about me and Nick. How can a man I haven't seen in six years make me so crazy-in all meanings of the word?

So the bird's worth a quarter million, and it turns out we're not the only ones who want it. Great. And Nick keeps looking at me with those eyes and kissing me with those lips...Oh, what the hell. There isn't a statute of limitations on love. Is there?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

The best way I can describe MAYBE BABY, is by comparing it to a cross between the movies, The Runaway Bride and A Fish Called Wanda. Yes, there really is a runaway bride here, but it's not a fish who is making everyone run around like chickens with their heads cut off. It's a rare green parrot called a Kakapo, who seems to have everyone's knickers in a knot, much to the enjoyment of the reader and which translates into some madcap fun and non-stop twists and turns.

MAYBE BABY is chockfull of quirky, fun and eccentric characters. You've got Dana, the commitmentphobic runaway bride, in charge of the family winery and who ran out on her fiance six years before; Dana's mother, Babs, eccentric to the max, with the hobby of "helping" her friends make donations to some of Bab's favorite children's charities (what else is a bored, former rich woman to do with her spare time?); Nick, the jilted bridegroom, and probably the most sensible of these three, who does side jobs for Bab's strange friends by running "errands" to help them "find" their charitable donation funding; as well as bungling would-be bird thieves, Boris and Natasha-like kidnappers, an old high school Marilyn Monroe-type bimbo that everyone loves to hate, and enough "whose got the squawker now" game moves to choke a chicken.

Besides the fun of chasing the bird, there's the on again, off again romance between Dana and Nick. Nick knows Dana's the only woman he'll ever love, and Dana senses it's the same for her with Nick. But she just can't say the words "I do", and he just can't take no for an answer, let alone set himself up for another broken heart. How the two work around all that and come to an understanding, is as much a part of the plot as the Kakapo hunt, but much more steamy, sexy, and more often than not, just downright touching (Nick has the patience of a saint, I swear.)

In MAYBE BABY, Lani Diane Rich has written a non-stop romp filled with oodles of charm and wit, and a heartwarming romance, ta boot. For a one-sit, keep-you-on-your-perch romance, that will have you smiling the whole way through, MAYBE BABY is the one to read, as well as the perfect take along book for the beach.

Nancy Davis

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