Nick's Baby

Nick Leonetti was celebrating his mother’s birthday with his family at the L’Allegria’s Restaurant when a note about a job was delivered to him through their waiter.  As Nick is desperate to get his mother, brother and sister moved out of Hell’s Kitchen, he’s willing to take a second job. He finds himself dressing up, including wearing a tie, to apply for a job in construction.  After arriving for an interview for a construction job, he finds out that the note that he had received was meant for a colleague and the job the note referred to had absolutely nothing to do with construction.  Kelsey O’Sullivan wants a baby and she needs a sperm donor to obtain her goal of motherhood.  She’s approaching this as a job for the man who’s willing to donate his ‘little soldiers’ for the task.

Nick can’t figure out if Kelsey is crazy or just very desperate.  There’s no way he’s going to go along with her plan.  Babies should come about because of love, not in the warped way Kelsey’s going about it.  Nick feels bad for this obviously desperate woman, but he’s not about to turn his back on a baby of his, even if it is created in a clinic. Nick needs the income this job could offer; he needs to get his family out of Hell’s Kitchen before the zoning wars get much worse.  Will he sacrifice his sense of values and donate the sperm Kelsey needs in order to get his mom and siblings moved somewhere safe?  His own dad walked out on them all leaving Nick to support the family.  Could he live with himself, knowing that his own baby would never know him?  Would that make him just like his father?

Nick’s Baby is a wonderful feel good story.  At first, Kelsey’s desperate need to be a mother seems to be nothing more than a wealthy woman’s selfish attempts at having it all, but there’s something so honest and loving about her you can tell that there’s so much more to her story.  Nick is tremendously family-oriented, and yet at the same time he’s very much a sexy, tough Italian man.  He’s not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. His devotion to family and friends makes him extremely endearing.  Rita Hestand writes Nick and Kelsey’s story in such a way that you can feel the tension between them and you are able to understand their inner turmoil over the baby issue.