The Baby Boon

Who stays late at the office when Mom leaves for a soccer match? Whose dollars pay for the tax credits, childcare benefits, and school vouchers that only parents can utilize? Who is forced to take those undesirable weekend business trips that Dad refuses? The answer: Adults without children--most of them women--have shouldered more than their share of the cost of family-friendly America. Until now.

Wealthy Regan St. Claire had been pure innocence–and temptation. Only, she'd come into Cole Thornton's life too soon, before he could make himself into somebody. He'd almost thought that didn't matter to her. But then she'd left him, and he'd sworn he'd never think of her again....

A MIX-UP AT THE BUTTONWOOD BABY CLINIC… Megan Malone just needed a Lamaze coach—not a handsome, hormone-spinning father-to-be who insisted he help raise her bundle of joy! But that's just what Mac Duncan—the man who should have stayed the anonymous sperm donor—was demanding when he found out he'd fathered a child. Now Megan began to welcome Mac's protection and promises for their baby's future. And uh-oh—was that the baby kicking, or Megan's heartstrings being tugged when Mac started to show something other than fatherly concern?

A woman searching for her biological parents finds she’s pregnant in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Still, Sassy Matthews was a woman on a mission. She’d come to Carson City to find her biological parents—not to faint in the arms of the lawyer who’d met her plane! Of course, finding out she was going to be a mommy didn’t exactly fit into her plans either. Now what was a girl to do? Jett Sundell wanted to keep an eye on Sassy—and not just because her new “family” suspected her of being a gold digger. Sassy captured his interest from the second she fainted into his arms, but she was pregnant with another man’s child! Jett knew he might be able to provide Sassy with the link to her past, but she might just be the key to his future.

Between 1946 and 1964 seventy-five million babies were born, dwarfing the generations that preceded and succeeded them. At each stage of its life-cycle, the baby boom's great size has dictated the terms of national policy and public debate. While aspects of this history are well-documented, the relationship between the baby boom and Hollywood has never been explored. And yet, for almost 40 years, baby boomers made up the majority of Hollywood's audience, and since the 1970s, boomers have dominated movie production. Hollywood and the Baby Boom weaves together interviews with leading filmmakers, archival research and the memories of hundreds of ordinary filmgoers to tell the full story of Hollywood's relationship with the boomers for the first time. The authors demonstrate the profound influence of the boomers on the ways that movies were made, seen and understood since the 1950s. The result is a compelling new account that draws upon an unprecedented range of sources, and offers new insights into the history of American movies.

You're a lifesaver. Those words tormented me for a long time… Frannie, a wedding dress designer, had offered a job to Jack, the owner of a major advertising agency, to expand her business. He was sexy, handsome, and instantly recognizable as a playboy...but what was going on when she hadn't heard from him in a month? When Franny visited Jack's house in frustration, she found him in trouble with his baby. She was told that he had taken in the daughter of his brother and sister-in-law who had died in an accident. Unable to leave him alone, Frannie helped him take care of the baby, but then she remembered her nightmare from a few years ago...

Because of our differences, I lost sight of love and my own feelings… Laurie is disappointed to find out she’s still not pregnant. Her husband, Rob, is away on business constantly, and the only thing he’s interested in during his brief stays at home is trying for a baby. Fed up, Laurie decides to leave for a while to have time to think. But once she settles into her new home, Rob shows up. To make matters worse, a heavy snowfall prevents him from going anywhere and they are left with an unexpected amount of time to spend with each other…

Jessica values her career as a lawyer over romance. Her boss, Bruno, is very handsome and wealthy, but is also a womanizer who doesn’t want to get married. While Jessica isn’t looking for marriage, either, she has no interest in being one of Bruno’s conquests. Yet as his new head lawyer, she finds herself spending more time with him, and before she knows it, she’s closer to him than she wanted to be. She finds herself enjoying their private conversations more and more, unaware of where it will all eventually lead…