#11: Olivia Waite, Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman #2)

[kareila]

As established previously, Dorothy Gentleman is a detective on a spaceship whose occupants are repeatedly reincarnated over the centuries of their voyage. Measures have been taken to prevent the passengers from producing more children, and each reborn passenger wakes up as a young adult with their most recent backup of memories restored.

Which is why no one knows what to do when an infant is left on the doorstep of Dorothy's nephew and his husband. Nobody has even had to think about how to nurture a child in three hundred years.

This must be why you brought a new baby gifts, I realized. You wrapped them in blankets because you wished you could wrap them in knowledge; you showered them with clothes and soft things because you couldn't shower them with the learned experience of your years and decades. It's why people liked handmade things for infants, even when those makes had faults.

These are breezy and frivolous, but fun. I hope there will be more.