Between Pride and Passion

"No strings" was what they both agreed to But a price had to be paid, and when events separated them, Karen bore their child alone. She had loved Val desperately and refused to trap him into a marriage he did not want. Then, seven years later, he discovered their son's existence and snatched Tony from under her nose. "If you want him, you'll have to come and get him," he told her. But it was not that simple, for memories and his still potent attraction undermined all her efforts to fight him.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.