I shouldn't had done it, it was a mistake if I wanted to stay awake today....but I did it and I loved it.

After coming home from the ubs I read KEEPING BABY SECRET by Beverly Barton, short fast SD read. I love Barton's The Protector series, they are stand alone books with really alpha heroes. Frank is not husband and daddy material but when Leenie finds herself pregnant after a 2 week love affair she doesn't tell Frank he is about to be a father. When their son, Andrew is 2 months he is kidnapped and now she needs Franks support and help finding their son. Good book rated it B.

But that wasn't the mistake, starting WHEN THERE IS HOPE by Jane Goodger at 8:30 was the mistake......I could not put this book down, Ms. Goodger kept drawing me farther and farther into the book with each and every chapter. OMG...this poor heroine goes to hell and back to find her HEA.

Susan is happily married to Steven and so excited she is pregnant she is almost sickening, on her way to see her doctor she is in a fatal car wreck killing her and the baby. But her guardian angels answer her cries and let her have a second chance at happiness by giving her Margaret Johnsbury's body after she is killed in a fatal fall from a horse.

Susan/Margaret remembers her angels, her past, and wants to have her baby. As she is recovers from her head wound she realized not only do the servants in her home hate her but her husband, Carter cannot stand the sight of her. But the ever optimistic Susan/Margaret knows she can make them love her just given time. For a month while Carter is out of town on business she turns the servants around but Carter has been fool by this lying bitch before and struggles with his feels and attraction to the woman that wants to be called Maggie now.

Margaret has taken lovers, lied to get her way, throw temper tantrums, disgraced Carter and his family until no one in Newport RI could stand her presents. Carter's family cut her every chances they get, Carter attends parties that she isn't invited to, even when Maggie attend a party in her own home no one speaks to her and when she is sexually assaulted by one of Margaret's old lovers no one comes to her defense not even Carter. Maggie almost gives up but she knows she was given a second chance to have the child she craves and she is set on to making Carter love her and show everyone that she wasn't like the old Margaret.

I cried and cried as Maggie was hurt time after time by Carter and his family. Before Maggie, Carter had been to hell and back and I wonder why those angels didn't give Susan an easier second chance lets this horrible Margaret die and leave Carter in peace. But then Maggie is strong, resilient, and very determined to make her marriage work.

This is a wonderful TT, 3 hanky read, I gave it A+. I hate to say it but I've been a TT snob for years. This might be my 3 TT in over 8 years of reading romance and over 1600 books I've read. What have I been missing?? I think some wonderful books!

To make up for this terrible error in reading judgment I ordered 2 TT form Half.com that I can remember other readers recommending. One has the heroine tossed back in time as she is about to deliver her child into the world. Can you imagine going to sleep single and childless to wake up in hard labor! LOL

I would love it if anyone can recommend some good TT, I've already been checking out Ms. Goodger's other TTs.