What Daddy Doesn't Know

What Daddy Doesn’t Know is the ninth book in the Shelter Valley series by Tara Taylor Quinn (although it seems to bear no relation to Shelter Valley at all…). Attorney Juliet McNeil finds herself defending property developer, Blake Ramsden on fraud charges. But Blake doesn’t know that their one-night-stand, nine years ago, produced a daughter, Mary Jane. Taylor Quinn builds her story slowly, (excruciatingly so: this novel could lose 100 pages and be better for it), and all the real action happens in the last fifty pages, with all issues suddenly neatly tied up. The characters do have some depth, although Blake seems too good to be true, and Juliet needs a good shaking at times. 3.5 stars.