His Baby, Her Billionaire by Sloan Storm
Series: Her Billionaire #1
Publication date: May 15th, 2020
Pages: 319
Synopsis (according to Goodreads):
He has billions of secrets. Me? I only have one, my baby bump, and it's starting to show.
Dalton "The Destroyer" Maxwell.
That's what they call him.
He's the sexy older man, the distinguished battle-hardened SEAL turned brooding, introspective professor. There isn't a red-blooded female in five hundred miles that wouldn't kill or trade places with me.
It was only a fling--just a chance encounter in a faraway place. I wasn't looking for a fairy tale ending beneath those starry skies.
But what should've stayed a memory didn't. It chased me home, leading me right where it shouldn't--his arms.
Now the consequence has me feeling like I'm cramming for am exam I'll never pass. The truth is, everything about us is forbidden. Nothing good can come of it.
There's only one problem. Dalton disagrees and won't take "no" for an answer.
When he promises he'll give it all up for me and his baby, that's when his ten-figure truth leaves me with an impossible choice.
What have I done?
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Review:
Book Two in the Kindle Unlimited bender: His Baby, Her Billionaire. I am not usually big into the whole surprise baby type of books because they often read pretty cheesy with the dude stepping up to do the honorable thing and the woman swooning with such a small gesture that they try to make an otherwise failing relationship work because of this. As someone who lived a surprise baby situation. It was not all "aww baby!" it was a lot of "holy shit... baby..." moments. That doesn't usually happen in these kinds of romance books but... I was willing to give it a shot.
Taylor was celebrating her high school graduation in Italy before she returned home to start college. It was there that she met Dalton. Not usually the wild and crazy girl she decided to spend her last day in paradise with a hot military man with a sexy smile and a drool-worthy body. She assumed it would just be a one-night-stand and a memory she could hold onto while she worked towards her goal of working in medicine. But when she returns from vacation and starts at her new school, her newest professor strikes an eerie resemblance to her lover she left on the Italian beaches. No amount of hiding was going to keep him from noticing her so he decides to nip it in the bud from the start and visits him during his office hours. But the pull the couple has for each other proves too strong to resist and they start a whirlwind secret romance, but when Taylor's pregnancy tests turn up with two lines instead of one they may not be able to keep their relationship a secret anymore.
Dalton tried to keep Taylor at arm's length. Even when they started their tryst he refused to label it as a relationship because such a thing would not work with his career. That is not to say he doesn't care about Taylor, but it seems like he is in deep like with her while she has already fallen head over heels. Dalton did a lot of waffling. One minute he was cold and stoic and the next he was erratic and hyperactive. It was hard to follow his mood swings and he wasn't even the pregnant one.
I am going to try to be constructive in my review, but... this was bad. The character's were extremely bipolar and while I can mostly excuse Taylor due to her being hormonal, what the hell happened to Dalton?? He started out so rugged and womanizing and then he did a one-eighty and turned into a confusing sap. And the whole integration with his family? That really shouldn't have even been in the story. It wasn't relevant. It was filler. It was just a ploy to length the book to an acceptable length instead of being important. The 'billionaire' part seemed an afterthought despite it being so prominent the book was titled after it... I am holding my tongue on anything else. It was just not for me at all.
