Whitney Lyles First Comes Love

First Comes Love

Whitney Lyles

Berkley, Jul 2007, $14.00

ISBN: 9780425215357

Married five months, Cate and Ethan Blakely begin to discuss having children as everyone they know especially family asks when they plan to have kids. Neither has thought that far ahead, but each has questions and doubts especially as Ethan has just started a relatively new catering business.

Still the pressure increases on them to produce the next generation Blakely as friends begin to have children. While visiting his family in Scottsdale, Arizona, Cate's period is late leading her to wonder whether she conceived even as relatives encourage them to bring forth the next generation. For now she and Ethan ponder to procreate or not to procreate that is the question as the couple investigates the nuclear impact on their lifestyle of raising children.

This sequel to HERE COMES THE BRIDE is a fun and amusing tale that focuses on the lead couple as they look around to see their friends having children and in turn pressure exponentially mounts for them to do likewise. Cate makes the tale as she muses back to her bridesmaid days as a Padgett envying her marrying pals and to those warm passionate times when she and Ethan became a couple. Whereas friends and family insist they no longer should remain a DINK (double income no kids), both have doubts that the time is right; the hesitation to push a baby carriage seems genuine and turns Whitney Lyles' tale into a deep character study.

Harriet Klausner