anyone have any tips? :)
I'm really bad about keeping secrets and whenever I have a surprise for someone it just kills me to keep silent, lol. Currently, I have a secret about my cousin's upcoming birthday *bg* This December 3rd
Eli will be 27yrs old! Whoo-hoo!
Why am I so excited? Well, for one, she'll always be four month's older than I am, LOL... for another, I have a trip planned with her and my friend, Alberto, to New Orleans, LA... and for the third and fourth... well, that's where the secrets come in. And trust me when I say it is just killing me slowly not being able to tell her... heck, I would share with you all, but, um, she might stop by, hehe
I'm also bad at letting others surprise me... yes, I was one of those childs who would look all over the house looking for their Christmas gifts, when packages were found (because they
were found) I would slyly peel off the tape from the wrapping... or if that didn't work, I would try and poke a small hole where I could... ah yes, those were the days, hehe... nowadays, I
try and let myself be surprised. Although, I just can't seem to help notice when a friend or family member asks me a certain question about which books are on my list, favorite colors, if I've noticed such-and-such thing on tv, or if they have me try on a jacket telling me it's for someone else (my step-mom will never trick me again with that one, lol).
So, while my secret has been on the tip of my tongue just ready to escape anytime I speak with my cousin, I wondered how all those heroines in the books featuring secret babies kept quiet.
Now, tell me a book involves a secret baby and you've instantly got my attention... I know it's a plot that's been told many times over, but I love reading about all the different ways an author writes their story.
Here are some of my favorite Secret Baby themed stories...
Back cover reads:
Once a teenage Bride...Daisy would always vividly remember her brief marriage at seventeen to Alessio Leopardi. He'd tired of her within months of their wedding, so she'd left him to give birth to their child alone.
Now a teenage daughter...Now Alessio was back and Daisy was torn: he didn't know he had a thirteen-year-old daughter. But Tara was dying to meet her father. Daisy realized that if she couldn't come clean with Alessio about Tara's existence...
**This is one of my favorite rereads... I just love secret babies (or in this case thirteen-year-old) themed stories. Can you imagine, Daisy kept her secret for more than thirteen years and here I am trying to hold on for another three weeks, lol.
Back cover reads:
From mistress...
Angie loved Leo Demetrios but his desire for her was brief and meaningless. After all, he was heir to a Greek shipping fortune and she was just the butler's daughter.
And mother...
For over two years Angie has kept secret the legacy of her stolen weekend of passion with Leo. But then she and her small son are forced to spend Christmas with him. How can Angie not tell Leo that Jake is his child?
To wife? Maybe Leo won't guess he's really Jake's daddy...If he does, one thing's for certain--he'll insist that Angie become his winter bride.
**This is another reread for me... and somehow, since I usually reread them at different time, I didn't realize they were both written by Lynne Graham. Hmm, now I must check out her other books. Wonder if she has any other secret baby stories I can delight in :)
Now, Angie didn't keep her secret as long as Daisy did, but how hard it must have been for her to return to the same house as the man she loved and keep the secret of Jake to herself. Anytime I see my cousin I want to spill my guts, lol
Blurb:
One fateful night, Toni Langston seduces her best friend, the guy she's been in love with forever. Two problems-he doesn't remember a thing that happened and now she's pregnant.
Toni Langston has been in love with Simon, her best friend, for years. The night Simon breaks up with his long time girlfriend, he and Toni make love. Toni is devastated and humiliated when, in the heat of the moment, he calls her by his girlfriend's name. The next morning, Simon remembers nothing of the previous night and Toni is only too relieved not to remind him.
Two months later, she discovers she's pregnant. She wants Simon to love her, apart from any obligation he might feel because of the baby. So she embarks on a quest to seduce her best friend, to make him see her as more than a little sister, to make him love her as much as she loves him. It works. Maybe too well. Now when things are perfect, she faces telling him of the secret she's kept.
**Now what would one of my lists be without a Maya Banks title ;) This was actually Maya's first release and my first read of hers. I still remember the knot in my throat, the tears I cried, the rereading I did... this is one of my *sigh* books. Toni loved Simon and after she find out she's pregnant, she knows she doesn't want Simon to be with her out of duty. No, she wants him to want to be with her because he wants to be with her. *sigh* The ending of this story is just beautiful *bg* I definitely recommend this one :)
... maybe I should reread and find out how they were able to keep mum. How about you? Are you able to keep a secret? Did you ever try and peek into your Christmas gifts? Go ahead and spill... I'll never tell ;)
