Books with title The Baby

Jessica Taylor couldn’t believe her ears. “I paid for her to have my baby, so where is it?” She overheard her father being threatened by someone in the living room of their mansion in Beverly Hills.“Jack, you don’t need to pay anyone to have your baby! But look, it’s all in hand…”Jessica couldn’t believe it. Was her father that cash-strapped that he had sold her body to surrogacy? And for how much?“Then I want my million back!”Jessica burst in the door.Jack Wilson stood before her, famous soccer player with L.A. Galaxy. He was looking for a surrogate mother for his child?“Daddy, what’s going on?” but her father crumpled to the ground before them. Jessica called the ambulance, but Patrick Taylor was already dead leaving behind nothing only Jessica and millions of dollars’ worth of debt, casting Jessica into the obscure world of poverty which she had never known?“Now you owe me!” was the only note of sympathy Jessica got from that hateful man, Jack Wilson on the day of the funeral.But could having Jack Wilson’s baby save Jessica from the mind-numbing grind of poverty?

When Olivia opens the bathroom door, the last thing she expects to see is her best friend, Nicola, giving birth on the floor. And to say that Nicola is shocked is an understatement. She's not ready to be a mother, and she needs Olivia's help. But Olivia has her own problems--specifically her bullying boyfriend, Jonty, and having to keep an eye on her younger sister, Alice. And then there's Nicola's friend Ben, who's struggling with secrets of his own...The Baby explores one cataclysmic event from five sides to create a brilliant, engaging, bittersweet drama about friendship and family that's perfect for fans of Jesse Andrews and Jandy Nelson.

Detective Bill Grant has seen it all in Orangefield -- and always around Halloween. For that is when Samhain, the Celtic Lord of the Dead who has made this pumpkin-growing upstate New York town his home, plies his trade. But this year when Autumn rolls around, Grant is confronted with something brand new -- and even more horrifying than anything he has seen before. For when Marianne Carlin finally gets the gift she has been waiting for, a child from her husband Jack, it turns out that the baby was conceived after Jack's sudden death in an automobile accident. Which means the child may not belong to this world at all....

An engaging, brilliantly written, bittersweet drama perfect for Rainbow Rowell fans. Five teens are at a 17th birthday party when one of them unexpectedly gives birth in the bathroom. From that moment on, the five find their lives inextricably intertwined with the arrival of the baby. All of them must deal with not only their own feelings but their secrets, too.