She’s too young for him. Pregnant. And irresistible.
Bodyguard Sterling Vance’s job becomes personal when the daughter of a friend, Angelina McFee, admits she’s being stalked by her ex.Angelina is knocked up and oh yeah, temporarily without a place to live. Then her daddy’s seemingly conservative friend offers to help with her stalker problem…by moving her into his home so he can guard her and … into his home so he can guard her and her unborn baby.
With his body.
Only problem with that scenario? Angelina wants Sterling to use his body all right, but in a carnal fashion not suitable for his prim and proper lifestyle.
Until she messages him incognito on a dating site and discovers Sterling can get down and dirty in ways she never imagined. Tie optional.
But falling for him? That’s not optional at all.
Sterling wants to build a family with Angelina and longs to be a father to her baby. But the woman he loves is in danger and the secrets she’s keeping—both in and out of bed—may jeopardize both her and her child’s lives.
Author’s note: Shielding His Baby has a HEA, no cheating and no cliffhanger!
*Shielding His Baby was previously published as Proving His Worth by Cari Quinn through Samhain Publishing in 2014. This edition has a new cover and has been lightly re-edited.
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3.75 stars–SHIELDING HIS BABY is the third instalment in Taryn Quinn’s (Taryn Elliott and Cari Quinn) contemporary, adult DEUCES WILD erotic, romance series. This is thirty-one year old bodyguard and businessman Sterling Vance, and twenty-three year old Masters’ student Angelina McFee’s story line. SHIELDING HIS BABY picks up immediately after the events of book two Guarding His Best Friend’s Sister but can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
NOTE: SHIELDING HIS BABY is the re-release and re-edited version of Cari Quinn’s August 2014 release Proving His Worth.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Sterling and Angelina) SHIELDING HIS BABY follows the building relationship between childhood friends bodyguard and businessman Sterling Vance, and Master’s student Angelina McFee. Pregnant, alone, and recent college dropout, twenty-three year old Angelina McFee struggles with what’s to come next including the ongoing threats by the man who fathered her unborn child, a man who is unwilling to step up and take responsibility for yet another fatherless child. Requiring help, and a possible bodyguard for the foreseeable future Ang comes clean with her childhood friend, businessman and newly minted protector Sterling Vance, and the man with whom Ang will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Sterling and Ang, and the potential fall-out as Ang’s past threaten everything she wants, and the man that she loves.
SHIELDING HIS BABY is an erotic story line; a highly sexual tale about two people pulled together by need, desire, and a palpable sexual attraction that does not go unnoticed by our leading couple. Angelina McFee is a pierced, tattooed, strong willed, sexually competent young woman who isn’t afraid to go after the man she wants, a man to whom she has been lying – a fake dating profile, and papers served force Angelina to go it alone or come clean and reveal the depth of her lies. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic, seductive and intense. Angelina likes to talk dirty forcing a once stoic and old-fashioned Sterling out of his comfort zone, willing to try something new.
All of the previous story line couples play secondary and supporting characters including Chase and Summer (Protecting His Rockstar #1), and Jax and Cassidy (Guarding His Best Friend’s Sister #2). We are introduced to Angelina’s father Marcus McFee; Sterling’s ex Tricia; and the requisite evil-the baby’s father-Pete Lamont.
SHIELDING HIS BABY is a sexy and spicy, character driven story line. The premise is spirited; the romance is captivating and provocative; the characters are colorful, lively, dynamic-a passionate couple struggling against the odds, and the secrets that threaten them all.