Nancy Warren, The Trouble with Twins

The Trouble with Twins

Nancy Warren

Harlequin SuperRomance, December 2006, $5.50

ISBN: 0373713908

In Lakeview, Washington, the bank is ready to foreclose for lack of mortgage payment, which would leave Melissa Theisen and her two children, eight year old Matthew and three year old Alice on the street, all because her rat of an ex spouse Stephen is a deadbeat who fails to pay child support, let alone visit his kids. Desperate, she begs bank President Seth O'Reilly for a little more time as she plans to open up a daycare center. The widower agrees, as long as she accepts his out of control preadolescent twins Laura and Jessica as students.

As Seth and Melissa meet due to their children, they begin to fall in love. However, she fears a commitment due to the antics of her former husband, while he and his children still mourn the death of his wife, their mother. Still the four kids get on great together and so do the adults, but neither can take that next step in spite of a quartet of preadolescent matchmakers pushing them to do so.

The rambunctious kids turn this contemporary into a lighthearted modern day Brady Bunch romance, though the two adults have issues involving what is good for the children, and whether they really want to forge a permanent relationship. Melissa and Seth may be in love, but both question whether that is enough, as they worry about the impact of another parent on their respective offspring. THE TROUBLE WITH TWINS is a fun tale.