The Family Way

Alex and Nell are expecting! 

At Nell’s baby shower, she’s hoping for a ceasefire between the law-enforcing Bakers and her criminal cousins (not to mention her scary grandmother, the mob doyenne). 

The girls just want to have fun, but when the silly shower games are interrupted by some unexpected guests, it takes the “fun” right out of this dysfunctional family shower. 

Can Baby Baker help these families inch closer to neutral ground and begin to heal old wounds and fractured friendships?  

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In-laws and outlaws. There were so many issues in the room, it should have been a therapy session and not a baby shower. 

Becca caught her eye and mimed breathing slowly. 

Nell hadn’t realized panic had been rising. It took a couple of tries before she could manage a deep breath. Well, as deep as Baby Baker would allow. 

At the moment, the bump was still Baby Baker. 

It had almost become a family joke. Every morning someone would send a suggestion through a group text. As time had passed the names—and the mocking—had gotten more extreme. 

Alex was holding out for a name that meant “surprise” or “shock of ages.” 

He hadn’t cut and run, but his eyes had twitched when she’d stowed a huge box of diapers in the nursery. 

The room was ready for the baby. Nell was more than ready for the baby to come.

Alex? She wasn’t sure he’d ever be ready, though to give credit where it was due, he’d pasted a smile on his face and kept it there for the past nine months.

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