Baby Be Mine - Paige Toon (2011)

This is the much-anticipated sequel to Johnny Be Good, which saw ordinary girl Meg become personal assistant to bad boy rocker Johnny Jefferson in LA. That novel left on a cliffhanger, with Meg pregnant but not sure who the baby daddy was. Now with her son Barney turning one, it is becoming more evident that he looks not like Meg's live-in writer boyfriend Christian but instead like his rock star friend. And Meg is wracked with guilt and wondering how long her son's paternity can stay a secret. Johnny, meanwhile, is in and out of rehab and dating out-of-control party girl Dana so doesn't look like a good prospect for fatherhood. I found this a disappointing sequel with overwrought emotions and stilted writing. It has been several years since I read the first book so it might be my memory but Meg seemed like an entirely different character. At one point, when we popped into a motor racing event to catch up with Luis from Toon's Chasing Daisy novel, I was sort of hoping Johnny was going to come to a fiery end.

Baby Be Mine, the sequel to Paige Toon's Johnny Be Good, will reveal who the father of Meg's child is. The summary says: "'He's not mine, is he?' That's the question I fear the most. You see, I have a secret. My son is not fathered by my boyfriend, but by one of the most famous rock stars that ever lived. And he doesn't even know it. One-time celebrity personal assistant to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg Stiles is now settled and living in the south of France with her doting boyfriend Christian and their son Barney. But they're living a lie - a lie that will turn their lives upside down and inside out - because as Barney reaches his first birthday, Meg can no longer deny that her son is growing to look more and more like his rock star father every day, and less and less like Christian, and sooner or later, the world is going to realise . . ."

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