Harriet Klausner's Review Archive
When Rachel died in the accident two years ago, her loving husband Jake Chastaine felt he died too. Even his law partner, who happens to be Rachel's father, has told him to ease up. Jake visits the Tulsa Fertility Center where he and Rachel were going to have an in vitro procedure before she died. Jake left a sample of his sperm. Using his old Assistant DA tricks, Jake learns that a now forced into retirement doctor illegally inseminated Annie Hollister with his sperm.
Jake realizes he might have a child in some place called Lucky, Oklahoma. He immediately travels to the town where he confronts Annie over custody of the infant. After a miserable marriage, all Annie wanted was a child without a husband. Now she has to deal with Jake who threatens a custody suit. As they struggle with their differences, a matchmaking toddler helps Jake and Annie begin to fall in love with one another.
BABY, OH BABY is a warm contemporary romance that centers on the aftermath of a doctor whose heart is in the right place, but his actions leave repercussions. The story line works because the characters seem genuine especially the support cast like Jake's father in law and the clinic's bureaucrats trying to hide the insemination error. Robin Wells provides a wonderful relationship drama that leave sub-genre fans rooting for the infant to bring two individuals together.