The Baby Project by Miranda Liasson is Book 3 of the Kingston Family Series. While this book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.

The feels peeps, oh the feels! This is a second chance romance that will pull at your heartstrings. Great characters with an amazing chemistry that for reasons of their own just didn’t take that final leap into forever...will they now take that step? A little bit predicable but still a good read. Have some kleenex on hand just in case peeps, just in case!

Please note that an ARC was generously provided in exchange for an honest review of which this is both honest and completely voluntary.

I really liked The Baby Project by new to me author Miranda Liasson. This is the third book from her Kingston Family series, and I am looking forward to reading more of her work. The two main characters are romantic, interesting, and replete with longing for each other. This book may be enjoyed as a standalone.

Obstetrician Liz Kingston loves her job, her friends, and the small town she lives in. She is finally at a place in her life where she can begin her own family. However, due to health issues, her ability to conceive is next to impossible. So she asks her pseudo friend Grant to be her high quality donor.

Grant Wilbanks is a famous international journalist. He thrives on the danger of his work, in addition to bringing awareness of the less fortunate to the world. About a year ago, Grant and Liz met in Africa. Liz was part of the Doctors Without Borders contingent and Grant was on assignment. They hit it off and spent their available free moments together. Now Grant is in Liz's town putting together a documentary. They rekindle the sparks they once shared and evolve their relationship into much more.

This is a truly entertaining and well-written read. Liz and Grant have an amazing connection and Ms. Liasson does an excellent job of creating sexual tension, need and desire. Grant is a hot alpha male and every move that he makes evokes lust, sensitivity and devotion. The conflict between Liz's need to have a father for her child and Grant's desire for adventure is well-conceived. Overall, this is an engaging read that will keep you wowed from start to finish.

Complimentary copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley.

Elizabeth Kingston wants a baby, and decides artificial insemination in the best way to go. Only thing she needs is a donor she knows and trusts.
International correspondent Grant Wilbanks got embroiled in a scandal in war torn Kenya, and as a punishment sent to North Carolina to work on a documentary until things settle down.
Liz and Grant had a turbulent affair when they met in Nairobi, and haven't been able to forget each other. Now a year later they are next door neighbors and Grant seems to be the perfect candidate to help Liz out with a simple donation.
The baby project was a beautiful read. It was emotional and heart touching. The characters are strong and well defined. The chemistry sizzling. I enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it.

I received a copy of THE BABY PROJECT from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the publisher and author.

Five stars and here’s why:

I fell in love with this second chance love story! This is my first contemporary romance by Miranda Liasson and she sucked me right into THE BABY PROJECT. I’m clicking on Amazon after I post this review so I can purchase more books by this author!

THE BABY PROJECT is a page-turner! Super fast pacing, well developed supporting characters, and the hero and heroine are both sweet and playful and so very real. Before the story opens, we find out that the hero and heroine had met in Africa and shared a real connection while they worked there, but then they separated when he couldn't commit to her.

Famous Reporter Grant Wilbanks chases dangerous stories, not women. He refuses to get attached to anyone or anything that gets in the way of his next report. He’s positively darling with his British accent and he’s a cross between a younger Hugh Grant with the brains and charisma of Anderson Cooper. SWOON-WORTHY! Dr. Liz Kingston has everything a woman could want: brains, beauty, fabulous family and friends, and an OBGYN career in her hometown. The only thing Liz doesn’t have is a baby, and with her medical endometriosis diagnosis, that’s going to be a major obstacle until she meets up again with Grant.

They meet again several months later when Grant comes to her hometown to do penance in the form of a documentary after a bad career choice. When they do, sparks fly, and before you know it, they get emotionally and physically tangled up in each other when Grant agrees to donate his sperm to help Liz out as long as he’s not part of the baby’s future. What happens next is a series of situations that challenge them both and kept me turning the pages until the very end! I love a romance with a strong female heroine and Ms. Liasson delivers. I look forward to reading more of her books! Highly recommend!

Miranda Liasson knows how to grab her readers and keep their attention throughout this story with lots of amazing things going on in the book with very likeable and relatable characters which you can cheer on to get there HEA. Brilliant done and looking forward to more from this author. Would recommend

Having read hundreds of books over the years this is the first book that I can remember reading twice in a matter of days because I wanted to savor this beautifully written story and experience the emotional connection between these two characters again and again. Liz is an ob/gyn who is surrounded by babies but fears she'll never have a child of her own because her picture perfect marriage ended in divorce and being a workaholic keeps her too busy to examine her lonely life. Grant is a British foreign correspondent who prefers his vagabond life traveling the globe to get the story because facts aren't messy and his emotions don't come in to play. When Liz and Grant slow down long enough to savor life, these two lonely characters realize that the journey is all about love and their feelings for each other have the power to change everything. I read a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley and all opinions expressed in my voluntary review are completely my own.

4 stars.
I have read several books by Miranda Liasson and they are always such a good read. She seems to effortlessly deliver these tender, heart touching and sensitive stories that are combined with a small town setting and "lots of charm".
Grant Willbank and Liz Kingston originally met in Kenya where he was a international correspondent and she was an OB/GYN doing a stint for Doctors without Borders. They had a passionate affair that ended badly and now Liz has returned home to join a practice in her hometown. Grant unexpectedly had to leave Kenya after an international incident that he unintentionally sparked and has now returned stateside to ponder his future.
Liz now finds herself wanting to have a child really badly and she asks Grant for his help with a donation. Grant agrees to help her but is torn between his feelings for Liz and his career. Needless to say this story is told so well and I definitely experienced a variety of emotions while reading it.
Liz and Grant were both strong, likeable characters that I could easily relate to and sympathize with.
ARC was received in exchange for an honest review.

Fantastic story is all I can say, an absolute must read. This book has so much more depth than I expected and it made it all the better.

Elizabeth is an OB Doctor, returning to her small hometown in North Carolina to join a practice with her best friend in college Brett and another woman. After catching her fiancé with another woman right before their wedding, she walks out and joins Doctors Without Borders for a year to basically regroup and move on with her life. While in Africa she meets Grant, world famous photojournalist and they have a deep and passionate affair. Before her leaving DWB and heading back to the States, they plan a week long trip together and are meeting at the train station. But Grant never shows.

Fast forward a year, Grant is headed home to small town North Carolina after causing a rather political firestorm while in Kenya and as punishment, they pull him back home and have him do a documentary on small town America and it's demise. They sure picked the wrong town. But Grant knows the Liz is there and he's never forgotten about her, nor she him. The oldest of three girls, her sisters are married and pregnant and Liz knows her clock is ticking, along with a medical issue that makes it even more difficult to get pregnant, so decides to go for IVF, although unhappy about not being able to be more selective about the gene pool. Grants Aunt lives next to Liz and it's a rough start as Liz really hasn't forgiven him for not only not showing but his simple failure to buck up.

The two spend more time together when one day Liz blurts out that she wants him to donate. He ponders this, and all his lousy childhood memories come back to him and he wants to say no but he can't. We get to walk through the journey with them, along with watching their relationship perch precariously at times, Liz is very closed off from her family. She loves them dearly but all the talk of babies remind her that she lacks in that area. I loved Brett, her fellow OB and close friend, so supportive of her and is there for her. Grant spends a lot of time with one foot in and one foot out and the inner dialogue with these two was very interesting and insightful.

I'll leave you with that. Does she get pregnant, does she tell her family the truth about what's going on? When Grant's time there grows short, does he stay or leave? Can someone possibly be that predictable you know what they are going to do, or rather not going to do?

Miranda wrote a fantastic story here, about the desire to have a child, of relationships that weave and bob like drunks on a binge. On family standing behind each other, throwing their love and support fully and completely to Liz. The emotions are palpable and very close to the surface. Along with that you get a good hard look at a man who cannot outrun his past or his father's glorious reputation. Who decides that its harder to hit a moving target and moving targets don't have families, meet someone else's needs or loves. Grant was an interesting character.

Read the book. You just need to read it. Miranda writes a great story and her characters are people with flaws and shortcomings like the rest of us. They're relatable and she manages to weave them into an intricate tale every single time. I highly recommend.
Great story Miranda!

**arc from NetGalley and Entangled in exchange for a fair review**

When you pick up a book by Ms Liasson you are guaranteed a book that will touch your heart and all your senses. This one was no different.
The story centers around Grant Willbank and Liz Kingston. He is a world famous correspondence who met Liz , an OB/GYN in Kenya. She was working with Doctors Without Borders and he was working on a story. They had an affair which ended badly and now , after creating a political crisis in Kenya, Grant is sent back to the USA.
Without giving away the plot and Liz’s desire to have a child, I will say that you will experience multiple emotions while reading this story . You will be heartbroken for the characters, not only for what they are going through , but in Grant’s case, what he endured as a child. Both are strong characters, with deep feelings but in Grant’s case, feelings he buries deeply.
Will he once again choose his career and avoid commitment or will he choose Liz , love and small town living?
A story worth your time. A thank you to the author for another wonderful book
I was gifted this copy by Netgalley and the publisher. The opinions expressed are solely my own.

LOVED every page of this book! This was quite the page turner! Nothing was rushed and the pace of the story and the character development was spot-on! The passion and chemistry of grant and Lizzy was exceptional! If you like contemporary romance, you will 100pct enjoy this book!

When I started reading this book I did not know what to expect.  I definitely did not expect the emotional story that I read.  It was heartbreaking and beautiful.  I cried a lot reading this book.  I was thinking it was like most of the baby style romance books.  A sexy read with a baby bargaining chip, but that is not what I got.  I got a story so full of emotion and heart-gripping love.

In this story Elizabeth is an OB doctor who is just floating along in life.  Yes she is hard-working and loves her patients, but she is missing something.  A couple of years before she divorced her high school love because she found him in bed with another woman.  Then she went to Africa to work for doctors without boarders and met Grant.  A hot sexy Brit journalist.  They have a torrid love affair and she falls hard, only to be stood up by him at the train station.  Now a year later she is still living in a house with no furniture, working long hours and finding out she has little time left to have a baby.  So she schedules to have invetro.

Grant has been thinking of Elizabeth since the day he left her standing on the train platform.  He finds hisself in a bad situation with work and has to lay low for a while.  Since he still thinks of Elizabeth, he decides to go back to his hometown and see if she is just lust or real.  What he doesn't expect is the feelings that rush to him when he sees her.  Elizabeth is so angry with him that she can't see straight, but an idea forms.  She wants him to donate his sperm for her cause.  She knows he won't stick around and sees it as the perfect opportunity to know the genes her baby will have.  Grant agrees to her plan since he will be leaving soon.  Can Grant just walk away?  Will Elizabeth's heart-break again when he leaves?

I am gonna have to check out more by this author.  I loved her story telling.  She really took the time to develop the story and tell it in such an amazing way.  This book was an amazing story of love and struggles.  Grant struggles with commitment and loving someone.  He just knows how to run.  Elizabeth is so lonely.  She wants desperately to be happy and to have a baby to love before it is too late.  There is such a push and pull of emotion.  I felt as if my heart was breaking for her at times.  The characters are so strong in their creation you can't help but hurt for them.  To feel what they feel.  Want the best for them.  It has been a long time since I have read a book that has made me ugly cry.  This book was that one to do it.  To take my heart and rip it to shreds with all the emotion.  I warn you.  You better have a box of tissues handy.  I can guarantee that you will love this book.  When I started reading it I did not realize it was a series.  It can be read as a standalone, with no cliffhangers.

Really didn't love this story, the heroine just irritated me, she spent most of the story complaining rather than taking matters into her own hands and when she wasn't whining she was procrastinating.

Sweet and satisfying read. Liz Kingston is an overworked obstetrician who has been scorned by about every man in her past. From walking in on her husband and his girlfriend in her small hometown to grieving a love she thought was true and reciprocated in the wilds of Nairobi, Liz decides it's time to get what she wants on her own. A baby! While her best friend would be a great candidate, his boyfriend wouldn't be to agreeable since they are wanting to adopt. Artificial insemination it is then!

Grant Wilbanks has come to town to do a documentary on his aunt's small town. He also is anxious to check in the woman he thought was the one but whom he allowed fear of settling down and relationship break her heart- in Nairobi!

When Grant and Liz come face to face the chemistry is still there- hidden by each's actions to keep it that way. When Liz asks for his help in her "problem" Grant agrees. But when these two learn of the failure, comforting one another leads to the igniting of the spark that had been flickering.

Grant and Liz were sweet together and completely wrapped in to one another, all the while Grant had one foot out the door. Being a foreign correspondent is all Grant thought mattered to him but walking away from Liz this time might be impossible.

Sweet story with a community and family that were awesome!

Liz thought she had her future all planned out. Her perfect plans went up in smoke and now at 32 she longs for something more. A family. That too may be quickly slipping away. Enter Grant Wilbanks, world traveler. He's hot, he's caring but a wanderer at heart. Can a torrid affair give them both the family of their dreams? Ms. Liasson took a subject that is heartbreaking and turned it into an inspiring tale of love. A story of hope that touches the heart.

This was a sweet read. Even though you know how it’s going to end up, it was still fun following along. Liz is an obstetrician who served in Doctors Without Borders where she met the world famous correspondent Grant Wilbanks and had a passionate affair in Kenya. But he couldn’t commit to anything long-term because a guy has to travel and report on international disasters and can’t fall in love.

Now it’s a year later and Grant has been thrown out of Kenya and has come to Liz’s small town in North Carolina to stay in his aunt’s home right next door to Liz. Yeah, go figure that a couple might meet in Kenya and next see each other in a small rural community in North Carolina.

Grant shows up just at the right moment for Liz to ask him to serve as a donor for her to get pregnant. And then they fall back in bed together and seem to be falling in love. But it’s time for Grant to leave again to go to some dangerous hotspot in Africa.

You know what’s going to happen and it happens very quickly. Over three-quarters of the book is the set-up and then the book is quickly over. I liked the characters and would have liked a little more depth to their situation and the troubles they had working it out instead of having the HEA wrapping things up so rapidly. But that’s not what a book this length does. If you want a quick, sweet read, this will fit the bill.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

LOVED this book! I was drawn into Liz and Grant's story from the very first page and was totally engaged until the very last page and turning pages just as quickly as possible. I loved the characters and felt invested in their story - I even loved Liz's family and dog. How could you not love a rescue dog named Gizmo? Too sweet for words.

If you enjoy contemporary romance, you will love this book. This is a must read for fans of the genre. While this is the first book I've read by the author, it won't be the last. I've added her to my must read authors' list.

It was okay.
A well traveled route, man unable to 'love' due to mommy and daddy issues and woman who has given up on finding her happy ever after esp since she's had a divorce (cheating husband).
It has an added extra, he works away in dangerous situations related to his issues and they have met before.
Bit predictable but if you like this sort of story then it's fine. But it wasn't wow or a re-read for me.

Such a cute and fun read, was cheering for those sperm to hit their target!!L