Anything for His Baby

Major’s pleasant, if not heart-pounding, contemporary, set in her Crimson, Colo., milieu (Coming Home to Crimson), is only nominally about a toddler in need of a nanny. Paige Harper mistakenly thought her grandmother would leave her the Bumblebee Bed-and-Breakfast, which would provide her with a new start outside of Denver. She feels smothered by her history as a cancer survivor and needs to escape. But when her mother inherits the inn and sells it without notice, Paige is dismayed. She makes a deal with the buyer, hotel developer Shep Bennet (whose twin brother, Cole, featured in an earlier series installment): she’ll watch his young daughter in exchange for a chance to open the Bumblebee and earn enough to buy it back. As she works to prepare the inn, Paige and Shep progress from arguing and negotiating to appreciating and supporting each other as mild barriers, such as a corporate rival trying to prevent Shep from selling back the inn, delay them from cementing their relationship. The plot is a bit formulaic and the dreadfully old-fashioned title may put off some readers, but Major writes reliable grown-up romances, and Paige and Shep’s story is worth an afternoon’s time. (Mar.)