Ella McLeod has donated the past nine months of her life,
and her womb, so her sister can become a mother. And now,
just one week before she is due to deliver the baby girl her
sister so desperately wanted, Keira tells Ella that she &
Dmitri are getting ready to leave the country for a year to
do aid work in Africa. And they don't plan on taking the
baby with them. They've changed their mind.
Family is everything to Yevgeny Volkovoy. So when he hears
that Ella McLeod is planning on giving up the child she
carried for his brother and sister-in-law, he immediately
offers to adopt the baby. The fact that Yevgeny is a
single, billionaire, workaholic bachelor doesn't seem to
faze him, he sees no reason why he should not raise the
baby.
Ella has very strong beliefs on who should raise the baby --
a two parent family, preferably with another child, a dog, a
house with a yard, and at least one parent who will be home
with the baby. Unfortunately Yevgeny fits none of these
traits, but he is not deterred. Ella and Yevgeny begin to
spend time together as he gets to know his niece and a
fledgling relationship starts to bloom. Can Yevgeny
convince Ella to give love a chance, to give family a
chance?
STAKING HIS CLAIM is a moving story of love and family, with
well-crafted characters in a beautiful setting. Ms. Radley
has done a wonderful job of creating this family dynamic and
etching out their story and at the same time weaving in a
love story. There were times I was incredibly frustrated
with Keira and I wanted to shake Ella for letting her sister
get away with acting the way she did, but I think all
families have some of that to some extent; which just made
STAKING HIS CLAIME a more realistic story to me.
When her flaky sister abruptly backs out of their surrogacy
agreement, Ella McLeod is left with a newborn she's in no
position to care for. She'll have to give the baby up for
adoption. Enter Yevgeny Volkovoy—her sister's bossy
billionaire brother-in-law.
Yevgeny won't let a Volkovoy be raised by strangers; he
wants custody now. How can Ella be so cold as to deny him?
Even worse—why does this woman warm his steely heart? He may
be staking his claim on the baby, but Ella may stake a
counterclaim on his bachelorhood.
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