I laughed a whole bunch reading this. Loved it more than I thought I would. If a lumberjack mountain man does it for you, give this book a try!

The second I heard the FMC is an animal-obsessed, curvy surrogate to a grumpy farmer, I knew I wouldn't be able to put it down. Imagine my delight when my expectations were blown out of the water.

**Age Gap
**Found Family
**Grumpy x Sunshine
**Mountain Man
**Single Dad Wannabe
**Small Town
**Surrogacy

This book was amazing and had me snorting out loud at work (sorry co-worker's, but they're used to it by now.)

Found family galore in this book, not to mention a pet goat and pig, and a growing count of "foster animals." Amy Daws has the best knack of writing quirky but lovable characters, who are often unfiltered, and I am here for every second of it.

Side note: I loved all of the RHoSLC references (IYKYK!)

What a fun and enjoyable read!

This is a first from Amy for me and will definitely not be my last. It was funny, heartfelt, steamy and everything in between! Cannot recommend it enough.

That new cover and edges are TO DIE FOR as well. Grab your copy!

To say I'm obsessed with this book would be an understatement! I read this last year when it published and honestly one of my favorites by Amy Daws. I cannot wait for the rest of the series.

I absolutely loved this book. I loved Trista and Wyatt. The banter was great! This is the first book I have read by this author, and I can't wait to read more. This book had all the vibes for me. Funny banter, independent FMC, grumpy MMC, protective MMC, found family. I just loved it.

Oh my goodness! I was obsessed with this book. I am honestly in love with anything Amy Daws does! Wyatta and Trista have the cutest love story!

I’ve read this before on KU twice already so nothing I say will be new. This book is hilarious, like cracking up in the middle of the night and kicking my feet with giddiness over the banter and romance. I can’t wait for seven year itch!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶️🌶️

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Canary Street Press, and Amy Daws for the E-ARC of this book. All thoughts are my own.💚

If you like these tropes, you’ll enjoy Nine Month Contract:
🏔️ Grumpy x Sunshine
🏔️ Forced Proximity
🏔️ Found Family
🏔️ Small Town
🏔️ Aspiring Single Father
🏔️ An Abundance of Farm Animals

Wyatt Fletcher is ready to become a single father and turns to surrogacy to achieve his goal. When he’s unable to find a good fit through a surrogacy agency, his brothers and niece get involved and set out to find the perfect surrogate for him. Enter Trista Matthews, a woman turned away from the same surrogacy agency. After a chance encounter leads Trista to Wyatt’s niece, she’s told of the opportunity and decides to meet the man desperate to become a father, and a spark ignites…

There were a lot of things I really enjoyed about this book. The Fletcher family was amazing and I loved how inviting and tight-knit they all are, Everly was everything, the animals are adorable, the mountain setting, and the last 10% of the book made me so incredibly happy.

Trista is absolutely hilarious. She’s an awkward, animal loving, word-vomiting queen after my own heart. I really liked her, and her growth throughout the book felt realistic - I loved getting to watch her break out of her past and learn to love the family she’d found.

Wyatt was unfortunately a bit too caveman-y for me. I’m all for a possessive MMC, but some of the things he did pre-relationship put me off pretty quickly… Though I will say, I do feel the background and context we get later in the book made it a bit more tolerable for me, and his body positivity also earned him a few points.

Obviously, I knew what I was getting myself into, and for the most part, I didn’t mind the whole surrogate x intended father relationship. There were a few times it made me uncomfortable throughout the story, but it’s so clear that Wyatt and Trista worked so well together that I could overlook the instances of discomfort.

Don’t even ask me how I managed to completely overlook the fact that this is THE Wyatt - as in Max Fletcher’s (Last on the List) brother. The second I saw Cozy’s name pop up I went, “hold up… Wait just a minute here…” It was a lot of fun getting to see Max, Cozy, and Everly again - and I absolutely LOVED the woman Everly grew into.

DNF @ 20%
I know with books like this you are suppose to take with a grain of salt (meaning don't take things seriously)

Why did we need the neices pov?

I think the whole round about way of the whole pregnancy could have been handle differently.

The writing style wasn't my favorite but i did understand what the author was trying to do..



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Wyatt is a lumberjack and he’s here to deliver his seed. (Please tell me you get the stepbrothers reference)

Well to his surrogate that is..
Wyatt is a jaded mountain man who literally lives on his own mountain. With his 3 brothers. Which you know might seem a little odd but even though he keeps his words to a minimum and communicates mainly through grunts, they are close. So close that they support his decision to become a single dad. Because you def don’t need to communicate to children..

Anyways Wyatt is tall and handsome, wears plaid and owns a construction company. All the women want him but apparently he’s too picky so the surrogacy clinic drops him. His niece puts out an advertisement on Craigslist and his local watering hole. What could go wrong?

Trista, has had a lifetime of trauma and honestly should have gone through a lot of therapy before even considering being a surrogate. Like a lot. After being abandoned by her parents she somehow didn’t think being a surrogate would have ANY effect on her mentally? Yeah me either nbd. Unfortunately for Trista as she was getting fired from the clinic she ran right into Everly, Wyatt’s meddling niece. Who knew immediately Trista was the woman for her sullen hunky uncle in more ways than one.

A legally binding agreement, a barn, ranch cup and Tylenol dropper later Trista is knocked up and ready to bake a baby for Wyatt. As much as she wants him she actively fights against his general niceness and only wants to accept kindness from everyone but him. Because you know, trying to be friends with benefits him at every opportunity is fine but letting him help when you are too weak to move is a step too far.

We watch them dance around each other and their growing conflicted feelings for the majority of her pregnancy. Even with the conflict this book was SPICY. I thought it would be a slow burn but I was wrong.. so wrong.

All in all I enjoyed and it was interesting watching them open up about their trauma and come to a better understanding.

4.25⭐️
3 🌶️

Thank you HTP the hive for this advanced readers copy!

Thanks to Harlequin Trade Publishing and Canary Street Press for letting me read this book early. All thoughts are my own!!

DNF at 10%

I knew from the jump that this book wasn’t supposed to be serious, so I was prepared for that. However, I was not prepared for the very weird vibes this book gives off within this family dynamic. Other reviews mention things that support my theory, but I won’t add them here because I didn’t read that part myself.

Why are the uncles so involved in Everly’s sex life?? They keep saying she’s an adult, but they clearly don’t see her that way. She tells them she’s not a virgin, and they all go WILD and almost possessive. One of them literally screams. It’s definitely a weird vibe, paired with the other comments made about her and her uncle from Trista.

For some reason we switch to WYATT’S NEICE’S POV for three of the first five chapters. It reads like a journal entry. She says “OMG”, in dialogue instead of just saying “oh my god.” She references TikTok sounds in her head during her chapters, and unironically uses “rizz” twice in the first ten percent.

“When my dad is done rizzing my stepmother”

“I could overlook the cat-piss comment if she had that rizz about her.”

“‘Nobody’s gonna know...they’re gonna know...’That trending TikTok sound echoes in my head as I slide my shades on and pull my hood up over my hair.”

We jump back to Wyatt. He’s at the surrogacy place. He says the doctor talking to him has wide, hungry eyes and that the women in that place are always a little too eager. It’s weird behavior, and it gave me kind of bad vibes from him as a character. I read some other reviews, and it’s clear that I probably wouldn’t end up enjoying this book.

I’m saving myself from over 300 pages of whatever this is supposed to be.

Ok I loved this one! Everything about this was so fun and exactly what I was looking for. I’ve never read a book similar to this so I always get excited when there is a new idea and plot for me to dive into. And the physical copy itself is absolutely stunning!

🐐Not-So-accidental pregnancy
🌄Grumpy X Sunshine
🐐Small Town Romance
🌄Age Gap
🐐Curvy FMC
🌄Meghan Quinn and Tessa Bailey vibes

A quick rundown, Wyatt Fletcher is wanting to become a father but he’s not in a relationship and isn’t looking to settle down. So his family help come up with a plan to get him his happy little family via: Surrogacy. It was such a fun and fresh idea for me. I loved that it was the MMC seeking this out versus the FMC. It has pre-single dad trope vibes and I was here for it. It was also incredibly funny and had me laughing several times. 100% Meghan Quinn vibes. Light, cute and fun. If that sounds like something you’d like, this one is worth reaching for!

Thank you to @htpbooks and @htp_hive for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC!

Normally, books with pregnancy tropes are not my jam. But this one was such a pleasant surprise. I genuinely enjoyed the story- it was both heartfelt and hilarious. The banter in general was amazing and the relationship development between Wyatt and Trista progressed so nicely. I loved what a wonderful support system Wyatt’s family was. Such a great rom-com

Omg! This book was so good. I loved the tension between the characters and how their story developed. There is so much humor in this book and made me laugh so many times. I can’t recommend this book enough, definitely one of my top 10 favorite reads.

I really enjoyed this story! I loved the characters the banter! I loved how the chapters followed the "weeks" in pregnancy and by the end..... you'll have to find out what happens! Thank you for allowing me to read this amazing story! I was so excited to get this!

I’ve read a couple of book by Amy Daws and she always makes me laugh. This book was no exception, Nine Month Contract had me laughing out loud.
I loved Wyatt’s family dynamic, it was so sweet seeing how supportive they are.
There were a couple of things that weren’t my favorite but still enjoyed it nonetheless.
Overall a cute romcom!

Thank you @htp_hive & @htpbooks for this ARC 🤍 #hiveinfluencer

this book had potential but unfortunately it wasn’t it for me. The pacing was off and there was more povs than necessary like the niece did not need a pov?! couldn’t get into this book which is unfortunate because I thought I would eat it up

Amy Daw’s “Nine Month Contract” was a fun, steamy, pregnancy trope romance. The grumpy mountain man, Wyatt, wants to have a baby and hires a surrogate, Trista, to carry that out. That sounds easy enough, but what the two don’t anticipate is falling for each other. I loved Trista’s passion for animals in the story. Her quirky sense of humor was a blast. Wyatt’s group of brothers was the built-in family that Trista needed, and there were several touching moments throughout the story with them.

“Nine Month Contract” included an interesting spin on the br33ding trope. It wasn’t heavy like I’m used to reading. It was sprinkled in. So I would say for those wanting to “dip their toes” into this particular shmink and are not ready to go full-on, then this would be the right story for them. The romance building up between Wyatt and Trista was sweet, and their spicy scenes were well written. I enjoyed the story.

I really wanted to like this book but I could not. Trista irritated the heck out of me. I just could not get how a woman would preaches independence and didn’t like Wyatt helping her a bit was okay with everything everyone else was doing for me but also how she was technically doing stuff like bringing animals which he had explicitly told no as it was his boundary.

Plus her calling herself a Cow, it gets irritating after a while & not funny.

I mean she guilt tried him throughout but didn’t like when he showed care towards her and cold it smothering- mam you were carrying his child, obviously he would want to help you.

Other thing, she said she didn’t want to have kids, I mean she threw that on his face when he was showing there is more but then suddenly after 90% she wants to keep the baby & relationship?

I loved the Fletcher Family and their close knit nature & I won’t judge them what happened in their past & I am also not judging what happened with Trista in her past but she made it her goal to challenge him every step of the way and then was suddenly okay with everything.

Plus her after the baby shower realizing she wanted him was ICKYY!!

I felt author trauma dumped and made a long list of insecurities for the fmc to deal with & I just didn’t feel she even loved Wyatt.

This story follows Wyatt who lives on a farm and wants to be a father. The problem? He's still hurt over his last relationship and doesn't want to be in one to have a baby. He wants to use a surrogate. When Wyatt's niece runs into Trista at the surrogate clinic, they hit it off right away. Trista doesn't want to be a mother and needs start-up money for her dream.

When Wyatt and Trista meet, it's obvious to everyone around them about their chemistry and attraction. Their forced proximity makes Wyatt and Trista see that they're both getting into something that neither one of them expected.

The chemistry between Wyatt and Trista was palpable from the beginning of their story. There were a ton of one liners which | love and had me cracking up multiple times. Wyatt's grumpiness made this whole book for me to be honest. The story behind his grumpiness got me hooked and I needed to know what was going to happen!
I can't wait for the second book in this series!!