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Smart and funny
This is a smart, funny book about a woman who finally grows up when a baby comes into her life. If you like your humor sharp-edged and your heroines complex and not totally admirable, you'll enjoy 'Crossing the Line.' The book deals with motherhood, romance, friendship, race, family relationships, and integrity -- all the while offering laughs on each page. I am far outside the demographic that 'Crossing the Line' seems most likely to appeal to, and I found it a rollicking good read.

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Witty sequel.
For nine months everyone believed Jane Taylor was pregnant. She even went so far as to make herself look as though she had been gradually increasing. In fact, she wrote a book on about it, due to hit the stores in a few more months and the publisher was begging her for more! When Jane decides to come clean, she throws a New Year's Day party to gather everyone she knows and tell them all at once. Then let the chips fall where they may.

Things get completed when Jane finds a black baby abandoned. Since Jane is white, this causes a stir. Jane is determined to adopt the infant that she names Emma. Her gay neighbors, David and Christopher, offer to babysit. Her family is in a tizzy. Her ex-fiancé, who should know better (he's with Scotland Yard), and a few friends are determined to help Jane keep Emma so the baby would not end up in an uncaring foster home. Yes, it means bending the law a few times, if not totally breaking it.

A caseworker from Social Services is watching her closely and interviewing everyone about Jane to see if she is mommy material. With Jane's well known shenanigans and slightly sociopathic behavior, there is no telling what everyone is saying!

**** This is the fun and witty sequel to "The Thin Pink Line". The antics within these pages are on the border of outrageous! There are a few words or sayings that will make Americans raise an eyebrow, but they are easily understood due to the way they are used in the story, such as paying for things in "pounds" instead of "dollars". All-in-all, this book will have you giggling aloud and wondering what in the world could possibly happen next! ****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

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sweet chick lit motherhood tale stars a maturing likable nut
Jane Taylor knows it is time to tell the truth to her family, friends, and co-workers, who believe she is nine months pregnant (see THE THIN PINK LINE). The infant she has been carrying is actually a bundle of rags. However, it could only happen to Jane to find an abandoned baby just before her pronouncement. The real infant she insists is hers although Emma, as she names the child, happens to be black while Jane is white.

Her boyfriend, Scotland Yard CID Donald Tolkien is the first to know the truth and handles it reasonably well as if he expected nothing less from zany Jane. He also informs Jane she must notify Social Services about Emma. At a New Year's Day Emma hosted, she breaks the news to all that she faked the pregnancy, but has a child anyway.

The hard thing remains the same problem that detracts from the first book which is a woman shamming a pregnancy. The story line is fun to follow as Jane explains to everyone what she did, but also shows maturity as she tries her best to do the right thing for Emma as well as gain custody of the newborn. Readers will especially like the accepting ethical Donald who will assist Jane as long as it is legal and in his opinion the right thing for Emma. This sweet chick lit motherhood tale stars a maturing likable nutcase (that is going around a lot lately).

Harriet Klausner