Finding Perfect by Susan Mallery

This week i started reading my second book. It's called "Finding Perfect" written by Susan Mallery. The book is a romance book just like Nicholas Sparks books. My essential question is how does the author portray a love story through the characters? Meaning how much the author chooses his characters in order to make the book a love story. What do the characters have that make the book look so lovely. Most of the times the authors makes that perfect man and woman that people would want to have. Also they make love look so perfect but in the reality world we believe is not so we live love through books. Susan Mallery is a bit different from Nicholas Sparks but I can see how she draws her characters. The book is about a woman named Pia in where she is going through breakdowns because she doesn't know if she should have her friend's Crystal babies. Crystal past away from a sickness and left the embryos to Pia so she could have them. Pia doesn't understand why her. While this is happening she is helping a football players that is living in her city, this guy happens to appear right when they told her that Crystal had left her the embryos. She was suppose to help this guy but couldn't concentrate so she told him what was going on and instead he helped her. This guy kept bumping into her and apparently he knew Crystal's husband who died in war, and this guy was there when it happened. Pia is scare to have the babies but feels like she has too and the football player just wants to be there for her. This is how far I have gotten into, and it's getting good.