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HaBO: In Vitro Fertilization & a Kidnapping

This HaBO is from Debbie and she’s looking to help find this book for her sister:

This question is from my sister who hears me rave about your site on a daily basis.

The heroine wants a child and goes through in vitro fertilization. She is unaware that the sperm was switched. She is kidnapped by the father of her unborn child until he child is born. She escapes and hides in a cave.

With a cave scene and a kidnapping, this sounds like a rather memorable book. I also wonder who the hero is, if there is one. Is it the kidnapper? If so, not sure how he’ll redeem the whole kidnapping thing. Or maybe it’s a handsome, dashing doctor?

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  1. Lindsey says:

    Sounds vaguely like Sandra Brown’s “The Switch” but I don’t think that’s it. “The Switch” has a lot of other very memorable plot points.

  2. DiscoDollyDeb says:

    Is it Kimberly Zant’s CHLOE’S DONOR? It’s in a collection (with at least one other writer) called MAKING BABIES. There’s a sperm mix-up, but I’m not sure about kidnapping. There is an enforced proximity element at a cabin (while heroine is pregnant).

  3. DiscoDollyDeb says:

    Ooops! I think CHLOE’S DONOR might have been written by the other MAKING BABIES writer, Sabine Ferruci. Sorry!

  4. Lady Voulptua Raventresses says:

    IVF. Does. Not. Work. Anything. Like. That. At. All. Ever. Any. Where.

    Just in any case you were wondering, neither does sperm donation nor does artificial insemination. You have my word.

  5. Carol S says:

    Praise the romance goddesses! There is actually an IVF mix-up, kidnapping book involving a SHEIKH! “Carrying the Sheikh’s Heir” by Lynn Rae Harris, Harlequin Presents.

    If this is not the book, I volunteer to read it anyway and do a guest review….

  6. Laura says:

    I feel like there are hundreds of books exactly like this.

  7. Lady Voluptua Raventresses says:

    Hello again. Current IVF patient here. One of your own regular readers and commenters. I don’t want to put a damper on a discussion of some extra-strength crazysauce books, and sorry to sort of threadjack, but I’d like it to ask everyone to please be respectful about real-life IVF and sperm donation (while mocking the crap out of the ridiculous books suggested here).

    Many more people than you may realize are dealing with infertility, including others reading right here, so I am likely not the only one cringing when donor horror story links are posted without context. Sadly they do (rarely) occur, but there are tragic mistakes made in all areas of medicine and we don’t define them by those mistakes. In the US at least, vetted sperm donors from regulated tissue banks can be a very safe family-building option for people who need sperm. Donors are carefully screened. Labs have quality control procedures. Since donors aren’t given recipients’ addresses or other information, there are hardly ever any sexy kidnappings! If you want to know more:

    http://www.sart.org/patients/frequently-asked-questions/

    http://www.reproductivefacts.org/news-and-publications/patient-fact-sheets-and-booklets/fact-sheets-and-info-booklets/third-party-reproduction-sperm-egg-and-embryo-donation-and-surrogacy/

    https://resolve.org/what-are-my-options/treatment-options/what-is-ivf/

    https://resolve.org/what-are-my-options/treatment-options/myths-and-facts-about-art/

    Thanks for letting me share. I think others who see their seldom (fairly or accurately) represented disability, illness, etc. may get where I’m coming from. I don’t mean to be a pain or anything. This is a difficult road to be on and I’m feeling extra vulnerable while I’m waiting to find out if IVF worked this time. If not, this is lots of physical, emotional, and financial suffering with no baby to show for it again. Please wish me luck. And punch anyone who ever says “just adopt!” like it’s a quick fix (that’s a whole other sensitive subject).

  8. SB Sarah says:

    @Lady Voluptua:

    Thank you for the links, and I’m cheering you on. I hope your IVF has exactly ZERO shenanigans as found in fiction. Especially sexy kidnappings.

  9. Gloriamarie says:

    @Carol S, I do hope you do read and review “Carrying the Sheikh’s Heir” by Lynn Rae Harris because there are days when I really want crazysauce.

    @Lady Voluptua Raventresses, first of all my prayers for your success in this difficult journey. May you be blessed with a beautiful baby.

    As one who is part of a demographic that occasionally is used in novels, I very much see where you are coming from. While I understand that shenanigans make for drama and plot, there have been times when the author has gotten it just so wrong about the demographic that I wince.

    Heck, I wince when I read books about places I know well and it is clear that the author has never been there. Just read one set in Boston and one would think the author would have at least looked at a photo of the Boston skyline if she is going to mention it because there are some buildings that dominate that skyline just as there are those in Manhattan. Not to mention she talks about the intersection fo Oak and Third Street. While there is a 3rd St in South Boston, all of the cross streets are named ofr letters of the alphabet. Oak and 3rd is an intersection in Saugus, MA.

    You know what I am going to say next, right? The appearance of verisimilitude.

  10. Katie C. says:

    There seem to be multiple possibilities and @Laura says this is a common trope??? I must read a completely different sub genre of romance as I have never read a single romance with sperm banks, artificial insemination or IVF – perhaps it’s because (in general) I don’t like my romances with either kids or pregnancies so this just baffles me???

  11. NT says:

    If it’s a category romance, you may want to look at Delores Fossen. She’s written dozens of variations on pregnant heroines, surrogates, inseminations, etc. for Harlequin Intrigue so it might be one of hers. I only read her first book, because her style doesn’t do much for me and it seems like she writes the same thing over and over again. But it seems to work for her since she’s one of Harlequin’s top authors and sells a ton of books. She’s also a good reminder that the tastes of the online community don’t always match the wider reading romance community, since I never hear her mentioned online, and that evidently there are readers who do want to read the same story over and over again.

    Some possibilities:

    HIS CHILD – January 2002
    After being abducted and artificially inseminated, Jessie Barrett was in danger and running for her life. And the one man she could turn to for answers was Jake McClendon — the biological father of her unborn child.

    PEEKABOO BABY – September 2005
    Months after the birth of her son, single mom Delaney Nash discovered a horrible truth: the sperm bank she’d used was under investigation for unethical practices. Complicating matters even further was the very real possibility her son’s father was none other than Ryan McCall — her sworn enemy.

    COVERT CONCEPTION – October 2006
    Natalie Sinclair was stunned to discover she’d been drugged–and impregnated. Even more shocking was the identity of her baby’s father: Rick Gravari, her sworn enemy. Now the only way to uncover the truth and reveal the mastermind behind their mysterious one night together was to join forces with the one man who was completely off-limits.

    (Does anyone in the real world actually have sworn enemies?)

  12. quizzie says:

    There is a book called “Hot On Her Trail” by Sable Hunter which involves an in-vitro fertilization mix up an the kidnapping of the heroine (who is also a virgin, dyslexic and homeless!. But that also involves her tracking down the real baby daddy and creepily hiding in the stables at his ranch before he sees her, promptly gets a massive boner and it’s insta love).
    I haven’t read it but the review is hilarious – also this is not the book you’ve been looking for. http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/f-reviews/review-hot-on-her-trail-by-sable-hunter/

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