Author: Karen Kingsbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982104333
Size: 55.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Science raises questions only love can answer in this moving and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times Book Reviews) life-changing fiction. One frozen embryo. Two families with life-long secrets. And a guy who never planned to fall in love again. Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world—Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves her new job and fiancé, rejects her family’s requests for forgiveness, and moves to Portland to find out who she really is. Dawson Gage’s life was destroyed when London Quinn, his best friend and the only girl he ever loved, is killed. In the hospital waiting room, London’s mother reveals that London might have had a sibling. The frozen embryo she and her husband donated decades ago. When Dawson finds Maddie and brings her to Portland, the Quinns—her biological parents—welcome her into their lives and hearts. Maddie is comforted by the Quinns’ love and intrigued by their memories of London, who was so much like her. Is this the family and the life she was really meant to have? Now it will take the love of Dawson Gage to help Maddie know who she is...and to help her find her way home.

Author: Nikita Singh
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184756992
Size: 30.85 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The hum of a motorbike. The uproar of the crowd in the stadium. The cheering and clapping. All fell silent... Just the thumping of their hearts remained and a question-were they going to lose him? Thanks to the makeover by her sister's friends, the nerdy Niharika entered college more confident, more attractive. She meets the sweet, shy Tanmay, and the spoilt but lovely Pia and they become best friends. And when Akshat and she began dating, life finally seemed to be falling in place. Except that it wasn't... Tanmay's success in football had begun to change him . Akshat's perfection seemed like a front for something dark and sinister. And their college senior Karthik? His aggressiveness was a cover for his mysterious past. Someone Like You is a powerful and touching story of friendship, love and betrayal.

Author: Cathy Kelly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101213140
Size: 46.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Cathy Kelly has enjoyed unprecedented success in the UK and her native Ireland. Building on the popularity of her "Dear Cathy" advice column, Kelly brings to her fiction a warmth and humor that speaks to women everywhere. Hannah, Emma, and Leonie, three women at critical turning points in their lives, meet on holiday and find themselves changing in unexpected ways. Hannah, young, beautiful and reeling from the betrayal of a lover, decides to throw herself into her career and embrace the single life. Emma, married for two years and hoping to start a family, constantly questions her ability to be a parent, while still allowing her own parents to interfere in her life. Leonie, generously proportioned and equally big-hearted, wonders if she'll ever find love with three teenage children in tow. Someone Like You is a celebration of life and friendship, firmly establishing Cathy Kelly as a captivating new voice in contemporary women's fiction.

Author: John A. Richter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456862995
Size: 61.71 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Author: Leigh Greenwood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780843961355
Size: 33.35 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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When he is forced to return home due to the terms of his father's will, Rafe Jerry, a hardened soldier, must deal with the family ranch, and with the widow who betrayed him.

Author: Terry A. Veling
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
ISBN: 9781532690617
Size: 22.63 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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This volume of poetry and prose expresses the vital connection between poetry and the human spirit. The poems reflect themes of desire, time, memory, resistance, natural love, and divinity. They are guided by only one hope, that somewhere and somehow they may touch a chord with another person, another soul.

Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444907778
Size: 26.84 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Quiet Halley and popular Scarlett have been friends for years, balancing each other perfectly - until the summer of their 16th birthdays. Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorbike accident, just before she discovers she is carrying his baby. Now, for the first time, Scarlett really needs Halley at the same time as Halley needs her. Halley is caught up in the spell of first love, and the pressure to lose her virginity...Each with their own problems, can this friendship survive the strain of support that both Halley and Scarlett expect from each other?

Author: Mazelaine Corvil
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 146206437X
Size: 68.19 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Friendship Kari had always thought nothing could come between her and Sandra since they’ve been friends since middle school. Sandra was more of a sister to her... or so she thought. The two had always had a close relationship which was about to change when Sandra encountered her high school crush Yahim. Kari was shock to see how a man could change everything between them, and to find out that their friendship was not really how she thought it was. Friendship and love Kari and Kevin had one thing that bonded them together; it was their rough childhood years that scarred their hearts, but other than that they were completely different people. Life has a way to put a twist in every story when they both ended up falling in love with each other, but they both knew there was a big gap of differences between them. Kevin did not meet Kari’s expectations of the man she wanted in her life, while Kevin thought Kari was not near his match. Kari found herself getting attach to the mysterious man when her and Sandra’s friendship was falling apart.

Author: Timothy James Beck
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758218397
Size: 43.25 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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At the Mall of the Universe, you can get anything you want. Marc Jacobs shoes. Hugo Boss suits. Food. Drinks. Dry cleaning. A room at the five-star hotel or a lane at the bowling alley. Of course, some things are harder to come by. Just ask. . . Vienna. She's one beautiful sister who is not going to be dependent on any man ever again, thanks to her cheating, should-be-dead ex. When she's not selling overpriced mascara to rich snobs, Vienna's checking out the scenery. Not that she wants another man. Much. Good thing she can tell it all to. . . Davii. The top hairdresser at CosmicTology is fast with a wickedly funny quip and with his shears. Nobody puts one over on Davii. But what he really craves is a nice guy to come home to. A guy who makes him want to be a better person. A guy who looks an awful lot like. . . Derek. He never planned to become a kept man, but it's hard to give up Belgian waffles delivered by room service. But no more. It's time for New Derek--new life, new friends, new job. And who better to help him take those baby steps toward independence than. . . Christian. Cool and savvy, he's cornered the market on charm. His sales skills have won him a fawning clientele. There's nothing he can't do, no point he can't score, no woman he can't woo. But there's a first time for everything. . . Meeting for coffee, dishing over drinks, dealing with heinous bosses, scheming backstabbers, clueless customers, and the occasional object of desire, four new friends are about to discover the joys of shopping for love in a place where what you need most might just be where you least expect to find it.

Author: Shirley Hailstock
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 146033888X
Size: 65.94 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Does the perfect plan have a surprise ending? Wedding consultant Theresa "Teddy" Granville helps her clients plan lavish black-tie ceremonies, though her own love life is strictly casual. Her matchmaking mother's latest candidate, Adam Sullivan, may be sexy but besides being successful, they have little in common. Agreeing to a fake relationship to fool her mother could make both their lives easier. But their unexpected slow-burning kisses and scorching nights are anything but make-believe. Adam's "marriage pact" with Teddy was supposed to be a temporary arrangement. Suddenly he's realizing just how deeply he desires this intelligent, passionate woman. In business, he's known for taking big risks and reaping bigger rewards. Now he's playing for the highest stakes of all, hoping he can convince Teddy to trust him—and her heart—before she walks away forever….