4.25⭐, 3🌶️

I enjoyed this book! It didn’t WOW me, but it was definitely a fun time! I loved that we got a few chapters in a 3rd POV – the niece, who set these two up. Overall, I enjoyed the book and I'm excited to see how the rest of this series goes!

This was a fun concept for a plot – a grumpy mountain man wants to be a dad, is not willing to fall in love, and just needs a safe surrogate. Enter cooky and loveable Trista that is more confident iin loving animals than humans, and just wants to start her onw non-profit.

❤️Intentional Pregnancy - She's His Surrogate
🌲Gru,py/ Sunshine
🐐Small Town Romance
🐖Age Gap Romance.


Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for an eARC of this book in exchange for my honest and unpaid review!

This book is sexy and fun. I can see that it won't be for everyone - as it covers some messier parts of surrogacy outside of a clinic, but it made me swoon and laugh out loud and I personally loved it.

Great for fans of other small town romances like the Chestnut Spring series, rebel blue ranch series, or silver pines ranch. Fun, easy, short read. I didn’t have an issue with the context of the romance as some other reviewers did. I look forward to the rest of this series!

The audio saved this book for me. Teddy Hamilton blew it out of the water, as usual. Without the audio, I would not have made it more than 30% into the book. It was really funny in the beginning. However, the female lead was constantly calling herself a cow and the baby a goat turd. I get the farm humor of it, and it was funny the first 3 times, but the following dozen times was very old. Overall, it wasn't horrible, and I was attached enough to the side characters that I would possibly give the next book in the series a try when it's released. But the female lead in this one constantly harping on her weight and saying things a mature 28 year old wouldn't say, wasn't my cup of tea.

Nine Month Contract was a fantastic read. This is the first book in a spin off series from the author's previous novel Last on the List and it features the Fletcher brothers.

This small town romance follows Wyatt Fletcher who wants to become a father and is looking for a surrogate to have his baby. With no luck from the agencies, he agrees to let his niece help with the search and she decides to play matchmaker in the process by linking him up with Trista, who is doing this to get money to open her animal shelter.

I loved these two. They were very open and honest with each other from the start and it was interesting to see them navigate their relationship from strangers to so much more. I loved the chemistry and tension between them. Their steamy scenes sizzled and Wyatt's dirty talk was on point and their unorthodox relationship was perfect for them.

Trista's backstory was emotional giving so much feels and I loved seeing Wyatt's family become her own.

Wyatt's brother's featured heavily in the story and I loved their witty banter and sibbling relationship which had me highly amused. But it was Trista's quirky animals that was the highlight for me.

This story was hilarious, emotional, steamy and highly entertaining and I was hooked from start to finish. It was a well-written tale that I would definitely recommend to romance lovers.

I really enjoyed this book. It was fun, sometimes you just need a good rom-com, you know.

I loved Wyatt and Trista. Their banter was perfection. I absolutely loved seeing Everly again in this book (she is Wyatt's niece who we see in another Amy Daws book).

I do feel like it was kind of rushed once they finally really got together but overall, it was a great time.

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THE AMOUNT OF TEARS THAT CAME OUT OF MY EYES FROM THIS BOOK, MY GOD

Not only did I immediately fall in love with Wyatt (because who wouldn’t? Grumpy, quiet, Mountain Man™️ Goat Daddy is everyone’s type), but I fell in love with Fletcher Mountain.

Trista was so REAL and it was so good to read about a curvy woman who wants to stick it to the man and cuddle with a pig.

I also really loved getting a little bit of Everly’s POV too!!! She definitely is a mastermind 😏

God, I can’t WAIT for Calder and Dakota’s book!!!!! Catch me RUNNING as soon as ARCs are available 😂

Thank you so much to Canary Street Press for the ARC of this book!!! 🫶🏻

The synopsis seemed perfect and I started this eagerly, ready to love it.

The MFC, Trista, had more issues than Time magazine and she annoyed me immensely. Wyatt, the MMC, has both an unpleasant backstory and a very unlikeable personality - neither addressed or dealt with their issues until far too late in the book for me - I wasn’t able to connect with, or care about, these characters.

Other readers may love this, but it wasn’t for me.



Thank you to Canary Street Press and NetGalley for the DRC

I must say, I went into Nine Month Contract slightly blind; I kept seeing the beautiful cover everywhere and knew I had to read it. The “pregnancy trope” is far from my typical read, and with a title like Nine Month Contract, it becomes clear that pregnancy may play a starring role. I’m here to say that Amy Daws discussed the topic of pregnancy and surrogacy with such care, knowledge, and humor that this novel left me with a cheesy grin and laughing out loud until the final pages.

Nine Month Contract, the first novel of the Mountain Men Matchmaker series, is filled with body positivity, blended + found family, and witty (tension filled) banter. I fell in love with almost every character (sorry Avery) and animal that found its way to Fletcher Mountain.

Wyatt Fletcher is a burly mountain man seeking a surrogate in hopes of fulfilling his dream to become a father. He finds his “lucky” match, with the help of his niece, in Trista- a confident, independent, force of nature!
Enter: a nine month surrogacy contract. What begins as a working relationship soon morphs into a friendship, but does it have what it takes to end in forever love?

With this being my first Amy Daws Novel, I wasn’t expecting the amount of spice, it was definitely more than I normally read. With that being said, it was so well written and blended with the story line. The main characters’ development felt realistic and natural. Daws did an amazing job writing the rest of the Fletcher brothers; giving them all enough page time for the reader to become invested in continuing the series. I’m looking forward to book two, Seven Year Itch, which follows Calder Fletcher.
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Thank you Amy Daws, HTP, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read Nine Month Contract as an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. I’m u

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this ebook.
I typically don’t love any trope that is pregnancy related, but this book seemed so popular and had such a high rating I wanted to give it a read. I honestly enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.
I loved all the side characters and I am excited to read the next in the series.

If you love grumpy mountain men, chaotic matchmaking brothers, and baby making shenanigans that turn into something way steamier than expected, then Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws is your next must read!

🏔️ Grumpy/sunshine perfection? Check.
👶 A surrogacy agreement that turns oh so complicated? Absolutely.
🐐 A pet goat with excellent taste in women? You bet.

When Ridge’s nosy brothers post a wild help wanted ad looking for a baby mama, he’s furious… until Trista answers. She’s bold, curvy, cowboy boot wearing chaos—and exactly what he never knew he needed. But when their clinical arrangement suddenly has off the charts chemistry, Ridge realizes he doesn’t just want a co parent—he wants her.

💥 If Meghan Quinn & Tessa Bailey had a spicy, laugh out loud, small town romance baby, this would be it. 💥

🔥 Tropes you’ll be obsessed with:
✔️ Grumpy/sunshine
✔️ Small town meddling
✔️ Accidental forced proximity
✔️ Age gap & curvy FMC
✔️ A man who grunts his feelings

If you like your rom coms hilariously unhinged, deliciously spicy, and full of heart, Nine Month Contract is the book for you!😏💖

I received an ARC through NetGalley and nearly DNF’d 10% in. I powered through it and ended up enjoying it more after the 30% mark. I really liked Trista and Wyatt’s backstory, their romance, and the side characters ( including the animals).

While this did make me laugh at times, there were some weird choices made in the comedy dept. Both Wyatt and Trista compare her to a cow throughout the book excessively. I understood the reasoning because she’s a surrogate, but it just didn’t sit right with me. She also refers to something being as soft as newborn foreskin which was just gross. There are also a lot of pop culture and TikTok references that completely took me out of the story.

All in all, I don’t think this was a bad story by any means, but I wouldn’t recommend it or pick up another book by this author.

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I received an ARC of Nine Month Contract from NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing. And quite frankly I’m not sure what drew me to this title to begin with. Pregnancy tropes aren’t usually my thing and I have never read an Amy Daws book. But this one really blew me away! It didn’t take me long to finish this book once I got going. Trista was such a strong but broken FMC and our MMC Wyatt knew just how to help her break through. I love a possessive man and Wyatt fit the bill. All he wanted to do was take care of Trista during the whole book; and at times her adamant reluctance to let him do that frustrated me but we got there in the end. They both helped each other with their past traumas all while on the journey that is pregnancy. And Wyatt’s family was so amazing and growing relationship between Trista and Wyatt’s mom Jo was really endearing. All in all this was a great book!


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I tend to stay far away from the pregnancy trope but this one sounded different since it started with surrogacy. When I started reading and realized I would be crying laughing most of the time, I was hooked. Romances don’t usually surprise me anymore but this one definitely did. It had goofy animals, found family, a brooding mountain man and his brothers, and a hilarious FMC. It was hard not to fall in love with all the characters and the ending was the cherry on top. Can’t wait for more of these Fletcher brothers up on the mountain.

Y’all, I’ve read this book twice in three months. It has quickly become a comfort read for me.

A mountain of a mountain man seeks a surrogate to make him a single father.

A plus-sized woman with no desire to have a family is rejected by the surrogacy agency.

His (matchmaking) teenage niece brings the two of them together.

It’s only supposed to be a nine month contract, but when they get in close proximity up there on his mountain, sparks (and feelings that they continually deny) start to fly.

At a glance:
- Grump/Sunshine
- Small Town
- Age Gap
- Forced Proximity
- Landlord/Tenant
- Pregnancy
- So. Many. Animals.
- Close-Knit Family
- Let’s do this without feelings. (Oh, sweet summer children, that never works in romance novels.)

Filled with plenty of humor, heartwarming moments, building tension, and heat, Nine Month Contract pulls on my heartstrings and gives me the warm fuzzies every time I read it.

Originally indie-published, this one is getting the pretty, sprayed and stenciled edge treatment with its release from Canary Street Press in March 2025. I will be adding a copy to my shelves.

I received a copy of the ebook from Canary Street Press and HTP Hive. All review opinions are my own.

The Nine Month Contract was a fun rom-com book that made me giggle. I loved the over protective MMC and his family. The way they treated Trista was so cute, especially considering her past family trauma. I appreciated how light hearted this was despite covering some deeper topics. I had a really fun time with this one. My only complaints are that there were a few cringey things. Specifically Trista talks about something being as soft as newborn foreskin, how she constantly referred to herself as a cow, and the baby as a goat turd. Other than that, I loved this!

This was such a good romance. I thought the banter was so cute and Trista and Wyatt's slow burn was well done (from someone who typically doesn't like slow burn romances). The spice wasn't overdone and both characters were dynamic. The pacing was great as well, so I was hooked from the beginning.

I received an ARC of Nine-Month Contract from NetGalley and wanted to share my thoughts. The premise is intriguing, and the book description is well-crafted, but I found the execution challenging to fully engage with.

One aspect that stood out to me was the inclusion of the niece as a matchmaker. While it added a unique dynamic, it felt somewhat unconventional and, at times, a bit jarring—reminiscent of certain plot points in other stories that can come across as awkward or misplaced. Additionally, I struggled to connect with the female main character, as her personality and choices didn’t resonate with me as much as I had hoped.

Overall, while the book has its strengths, it didn’t fully align with my personal preferences. That said, readers who enjoy unconventional family dynamics and lighthearted matchmaking tropes might find it more enjoyable.

Wyatt is desperate to be a father...but after trying several surrogacy agencies, the dream seems farther away, until his niece Everly takes matters into her own hands, determined to find him not only a surrogate, but a family.

This book was a really fun read. I do recognise that most of surrogacy is strictly regulated, but of course, romance book laws apply in these two falling in love and building a relationship. I did appreciate that the book was very thoughtful in ways that people are discriminated against - Trista is ineligible to be a professional surrogate because she has never previously been pregnant and is over their weight limit. I also enjoyed that the book advocated for the healing that can come with working with a loving animals. Tessa is a worker at an animal shelter and her love of her array of farm animals is a source of stability and love after a difficult childhood.

I also really enjoyed Wyatt's matchmaking niece Everly. Like me, she's heading off to college in Ireland at 18 (unmentioned which one, but I hope my alma mater, Trinity) and has the assertive (some would say pushy) nature you need to move across the Atlantic Ocean from your family at 18. She is a great matchmaker for her uncle, and curious to see if she's as good at it for herself in future books.

This may not be a book for anyone struggling with infertility, but I really enjoyed it and would recommend to fans of Tessa Bailey or Melanie Harlow.

The plot of this book was interesting, but I felt like it could have been executed better. Some of the writing was really cringe and I could have done without the foreskin of newborn babies line. That was pretty inappropriate for me. The FMC was great, and I loved her love of animals but the MMC being a big, rich, jealous mountain man was also cringe for me.