title: Storybook Dad
author:  Laura Bradford 
description: Laura Bradford has spent much of her life moving around. After stints in New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Missouri, she's finally settled in a quiet suburb of New York City with her daughters. A graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Laura worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance business writer before delving head first into her first love--fiction. Today, Laura writes both romance and mysteries.
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Cover Page](../titlepage.xhtml)
  
  
  [Excerpt](003-excerpt.html)
  
  
  [About the Author](004-abouttheauthor.html)
  
  
  [Books by Anne McAllister](005-otherbooksby.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](006-titlepage.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER ONE](007-chapter1.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER TWO](008-chapter2.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER THREE](009-chapter3.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER FOUR](010-chapter4.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER FIVE](011-chapter5.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER SIX](012-chapter6.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER SEVEN](013-chapter7.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER EIGHT](014-chapter8.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER NINE](015-chapter9.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER TEN](016-chapter10.html)
  
  
  [Copyright](017-copyright.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## “I’m not its daddy!”
  
  
  Carly reached into the basket and scooped the baby up into her arms. “He has
  your nose.”  
    
  
  
  “He does not!”  
    
  
  
  “And his eyes are exactly the same blue as yours.”  
    
  
  
  “And hundreds of thousands of other people’s…”  
    
  
  
  “But he’s on _your_ veranda.” Carly looked down at the baby. “Oh, dear. What
  if whoever left him doesn’