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Review / Release Blitz: Child of Mine (Boston Classics #4) by Karen Grey

Release Date: December 1

“A romcom set in BOSTON in the 80s?? Yes please!” NYT bestselling author Erin Nicholas

The bigger the secret, the harder it is to hide.

Single mom Isabella York was a celebrity before she had her first kiss, her first date, or her first sip of alcohol. Playing the bad girl—both on and off the set—allowed her to make up for lost time. Back home in Boston, with her “checkered past” behind her, all she wants is to raise her little girl far away from the spotlight, because revealing her secrets could mean losing everything, or gaining more than she ever hoped.

For her, and her daughter.

It’s not that Henry Smith hates kids—they don’t like him. Meanwhile, he’s stuck producing children’s TV, so he’ll try to tone down the grumpiness that’s dogged him since his life imploded seven years ago. After all, not everyone gets a second chance to chase his dream. If he plays his cards right at this new gig, he can move on to making television that will change the world, not just entertain a bunch of brats.

Maybe he can charm the woman he never thought he’d see again into a do-over while he’s at it.

In this sexy, heartwarming, not-quite-historical romance—the latest Boston Classics standalone romcom—a sunshine/grumpy pair has to face the past to before they can find a future… together.

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MY REVIEW

Bella never thought she'd see her one night stand again. Why'd he have to appear now? Now when she's trying live her life away from the public eye, raising her daughter? Will Henry convince her to give him a chance to win her heart? Her and her daughter's hearts?

I loved the other story I read in this series - Forget About Me, so I already knew I was in for a treat heading into this one. A nostalgic, sweet treat. And I loved it! Grumpy/sunshine, secret baby, and set in my era, the 80s? How could I not fall head over heels for this story, for Bella, Henry, and all the other lovable characters that make up this world?


Meet Karen Grey
The first three books in Karen Grey’s 1980’s era Boston Classics romance series released in 2020: What I’m Looking For, Forget About Me and Like It’s 1999. You Spin Me released in 2021, to be followed by novel #4 in the series later this year.

The audiobook of What I’m Looking For won an AudioFile Magazine Earphones award and was a finalist in the Independent Audiobook Awards, 2020. She’s also had essays published in Salt Magazine and the Nevertheless We Persistedcollections (one an Audies Finalist and the other a SOVAs finalist), and a short story in the collection Vintage Love Stories.

Her first romance novel was a winner of the NJ Romance Writers’ Put Your Heart in a Book contest and Hearts Through History’s Romance Through the Ages contest in the Modern History category.

To learn more about Karen Grey, visit here!

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