It took me a long time to read this book, but once I started it, I could not put it down! McComas tells the story of Hannah Benson, a victim of child abuse whole fleas her abuser and starts a new life as a teenager. Twenty years later, she receives a call that her niece has been orphaned and need...
Wondering about wounded city doctor Dorie Devries's unhappy past, which has driven her into hiding in his home town, Kansas farmer Gil Howlett seeks to gain her trust and win her heart with healing tenderness.
Joe Bonner surveyed the damage with a rueful smile. It wasn't even, day that a breathtaking angel out of nowhere drove him off the road, called him a trespasser, and then fainted dead away in his arms! Leslie Rothe had run away from her sister's wedding in confusion, wondering if she'd ever fall ...
She threw herself down in the middle of it, trench coat and all, panting and declaring, “You lose, Oliver.” Three flights of stairs weren’t what they were in college, he determined, his hands on his knees as he sucked in air. And Holly was as slick and sly as an eel. This was a good thing to know...
She went out of her way to hear it over and over again. “So the new hillbilly dogcatcher stepped forward and said, ‘The reason I ain’t caught no dogs yet, is cuz I don’t know what I’m ’posed to catch ’em at.’” Sydney articulated in her best hillbilly dialect. Tom’s laugh, low and rumbling, filled...
It’s purr-fect.” Jesse was, Sophie sensed, an undemanding critic who would have said the same thing had she descended in the garment bag she’d brought the dress home in. Still, it was a terrific dress and she felt good in it, which all the real authorities said was, in the end, the important thin...
—Gloria Steinem You’re unhappy with the present course of your life. So, turn, left and go that way. Everything we think we know has either been told to us or learned through trial and error. Think about the choices you make. Is vanilla ice cream really the best? Or is it the most readily availab...
"Mom? Mother?" "Dorie?" "Mother, are you all right?" "I'm fine, dear. Are… are you all right?" There was a note of panic in her voice. "Of course. Is something wrong?" "No. Not here. Has something happened there?" "No." "Then why are you calling me?" It wasn't that Dorie h...
Along with her husband, she owned a big yellow square-framed house with green shutters and a wide white porch that wrapped around three sides of it just two blocks from the Steadmans. Not only was she a notable member of the Altar Society, but she proctored the study hall in the high school libra...
The day after Christmas was crazy in Manhattan with people returning gifts and shopping for sales. Not sure if the office would be open, he opted to go to her apartment first, praying that being newly pregnant, she had decided to stay home rather than face a visit with her family. He arrived in t...
She knew this. But not thinking about it was like trying to put out the fires of hell with an empty bucket.Making coffee at the diner, she wondered how he would arrive on Wednesday night. In some outrageous and ridiculous fashion, no doubt. In sparkling sequins, maybe, barely outstriding a cheeri...
Miller and the Midas Man FOUR HE GAVE HER MONDAY to reflect on and reconsider her hasty decision to ignore him, to think about him and anxiously anticipate his next move. He gave her Monday to miss him—and because he wasn’t sure what he’d do next until Monday evening. Growing up, it had been a jo...