Claiming My Hidden Son is written by well known M&B author Maya Blake and published by Mills & Boon Modern imprint. Neither the hero - Axios nor the heroine - Calypso want this arranged marriage decided years ago by their respective grandfathers and invoked by Calypso’s father as he needs a cash injection to save his business. If Calypso doesn’t agree to the marriage her father will make her wheelchair bound mother’s life miserable. The marriage goes ahead and sparks definitely fly on the couples’s Wedding night. Calypso flees the next day, using the money her mother had given her for such a situation. Fast forward a year and the reader finds Calypso in Bora Bora with her baby son. She is planning to go back to Athens to give the baby to Axios whilst she goes to Switzerland to seek treatment for an illness that killed her grandmother. Unfortunately for her Axios tracks her down and takes her and their baby back to Athens. Slowly over the next few weeks they create a small family unit and Axios begs her to stay when she says she is leaving without their son. He finds out about her possible illness/diagnosis and let’s her go to Switzerland. Will they be able to overcome these secrets and have their HEA?
Written in the first person and written mostly from Axio’s perspective, I found it confusing (and it spoiled the flow of the storyline) when suddenly the first person narrative switched to Calypso’s voice. If it hadn’t been such an enjoyable novel I would probably have given up on it but the premise of the book, for me, saved the book.
I received this book via Netgalley and Mills and Boon in exchange for a honest review. I am a #MillsAndBoonInsider #netgalley
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