A Charming Doorstep Baby

Four and a half stars Maribel Del Toro and Dean Hunter end up neighbors when they visit Charming… when Dean ends up with a darling baby on his doorstep, Maribel’s heart doesn’t allow her to remain uninvolved. A CHARMING DOORSTEP BABY is the fifth in Heatherly Bell’s series set in Charming, Texas. While Maribel and Dean initially clash over what is best for the little one, they find common ground in making sure the cutie is well cared for, and discover they share much more. Readers also ge

A baby left on a doorstep that brings two rather surly neighbors together. This is a meet-cute unlike any I’d ever considered before. And I’m not altogether convinced that it fully qualifies under the “cute” portion of that description. Dean and Maribel are a lot like those two porcupines in the old joke: how do porcupines mate – carefully. The social worker and the rodeo star are constantly bristling at one another and defending themselves before either one can get hurt. I loved watching this

Maribel is a burnt out social worker who just needs to get away from everything. Dean is a rodeo cowboy forced to retire before he is ready. They are two strangers who discover an abandoned baby. Maribel wants to call the police but Dean wants to give the mother a chance. They bond over the care of the baby while trying to work through their respective pasts and figure out what they want in their future. Thus is a great read in the Charming series.