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Welcome to England's beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother . . .
Abby Rhodes is just starting to get her life on track. After her fiance's unexpected death, she returned with her young son to the small village where she grew up and threw herself into helping her ailing grandmother run the town's beach cafe. Then one evening, her mother, Laura, shows up in Hartley-by-the-Sea and announces her plan to stay. After twenty years away, she now wants to focus on the future-and has no intention, it seems, of revisiting the painful past.
Laura Rhodes has made a lot of mistakes, and many of them concern her daughter. But as Abby gets little glimpses into her mother's life, she begins to realize there are depths to Laura she never knew. Slowly, Abby and Laura start making tentative steps toward each other, only to have life become even more complicated when an unexpected tragedy arises. Together, the two women will discover truths both sad and surprising that draw them closer to a new understanding of what it means to truly forgive someone you love.
Midlife crisis? What midlife crisis?
At 44, Cynthia Smart is exactly where she wants to be. Almost.
In a couple of years, she'll be the CEO of the company she's spent most of her adult life working in. For now, though, she's still busy shimmying up the greasy pole of corporate business. She's single, carefree, and independent, and nothing can stop her getting what she wants and deserves.
Until she discovers she's pregnant.
Determined to have her cake and eat it, she's convinced that having a baby will make little difference to her life, and that she will be one of those women who can hold down an incredibly demanding job and also be a perfect mother.
But as her pregnancy progresses and her life slowly falls apart, she has the sneaking suspicion that Max Oakland, the new guy on the block, is out to steal her dream job. That she's terribly attracted to him doesn't help, nor does the fact that he's devilishly handsome, appears to be a really nice fella, and is good in a crisis.
When she gradually comes to realize that something has got to give, what she doesn't want it to be is her heart.
Perfect for fans of Mandy Baggot, Heidi Swain, and Holly Martin.
What happens when you receive orders from the NSA to marry a complete stranger?
Maxwell, a highly decorated member of the NSA’s task force, stared at the orders in front of him without bothering to disguise his skepticism.
The mission, to marry Vanessa Lambert, who was worth several billions of dollars, received two PhD’s before the age of 21, and the foremost authority on biological agents and neural mapping.
On paper, she is remarkable, but nowhere did it mention training to be an operative.
A fake marriage, an untrained partner, and no expectation of gaining feelings.... What could go wrong?