Download or read book Picket Fence Surprise written by Kris Fletcher and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They weren't expecting this… Heather Jacobs has a lot in common with Xander Sorenson: they've each got a great kid they adore, and neither of their paths to parenthood started out easy. So he's the perfect guy to help her with her plan to seek joint custody of her daughter. But the perfect guy for her? Not so much, especially when she's not convinced his reckless ways are behind him. Plus, he brings out a side of her that she'd rather keep in check. And then the impossible happens…

Download or read book Plant Whatever Brings You Joy written by Kathryn Hall and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mine Are Spectacular written by Janice Kaplan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wealthy New York suburb, forty-one-year-old divorced mom Sara Turner is juggling a new fiancé, a new TV career, and a Newcomer’s Club that throws sex-toy parties. Her dearest friend, Kate Steele, a hotshot Park Avenue skin doctor, is being romanced by a real estate mogul who happens to be married. And Sara’s new neighbor, Berni Davis, has just quit her high-powered career to have twins, trading in the fast track for the cul-de-sac. At a time in life when women expect to find doors closing, Sara, Kate, and Berni find new options and unexpected twists: a baby shower starring a male stripper, a long-gone husband’s surprise return, a seductive ex-wife’s sudden advances, and a hunky soap star waiting in the wings. In a world where women spend their forties trying to look thirty, these savvy friends help one another keep their priorities straight. Most of the time.

Download or read book My Unexpected Surprise written by Piper Rayne and published by Piper Rayne, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never thought of myself as dad material. Until my one-night stand showed up in my small Alaskan town five months pregnant. But I don’t shy away from responsibility. First, because I’m a Greene and not to boast but we’re kind of a big deal in Sunrise Bay. Second, I’m the Sheriff. I couldn’t have predicted how protective I’d become for the safety of her and my unborn baby to the point of asking her to move in with me and be my roommate. Just when I think I have the situation under control, another surprise knocks me over, but it only spurs me to double down. I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t think it through. Somewhere between the dinners, the TV show binging, the doctor appointments, and me walking in on her naked, lines blurred. In what feels like warp speed, my bachelor for life status is in jeopardy and I’m fighting for the most important thing of all—my family.

Download or read book Black Picket Fences written by Mary Pattillo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.

Download or read book Life s Unexpected Adventures written by Joanne Rawson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-23 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO STRINGS ATTACHED and other romantic stories.Wedding invitations are supposed to bring a smile to your face, with thoughts of a happy occasion that two people would be joining in Holy matrimony, publicly declaring their love for each other. However, for Laura Lee, it was just confirmation that at thirty-three, she had spent all her time and efforts on her career and is still single.After finding out that her ex will be attending the same wedding, Laura Lee has three days to find herself a date. In desperation, she calls on the help of her best friend Lisa, the who's who of Nottingham's eligible bachelors. Discovering that Nottingham's most rich and handsome men find her icy, Laura has to take her only option, the man she most despises, her work colleague, Adam Ford.

Download or read book THE UNEXPECTED PACKAGE written by MICHELLE LEE and published by Trafford. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two-year-old Kay Stewart is on top of the world. For the past eleven years, she has let nothing interfere with her climb to achieve notoriety as a New York fashion designer with her own line, label, and international success. Determined to never succumb to the patter of little feet and picket fence syndrome, Kay is more than ready to welcome the rewards she has worked so hard to achieve. But all of that is about to change when Kay receives a strange message on her answering machine. Kay barely has time to figure out who the message is from when her doorman delivers an unusual package. When she peers inside, Kay is shocked to discover its contents: a baby boy. With only an anonymous note supposedly penned by someone from her childhood to provide clues, Kay faces a complex dilemma: who would entrust their baby in her care? When she is forced to explain the baby's sudden appearance to her long-time boyfriend, his unexpected reaction to the news sends her on a journey into her past where she soon unearths much more than just the baby's identity. In this novel, a career woman whose life is turned upside down by an unforeseen package is about to discover that nothing is predictable, especially when it comes to babies, love, and the future.

Download or read book Unexpected Christmas Joy written by Gabrielle Meyer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holiday matchmakers are full of surprises… Her surprise inheritance could make them a family. It’s a plot twist actress Kate LeClair never anticipated: becoming guardian to toddler triplets. But with guidance from experienced single dad Jacob Dawson, she and the boys can move on by Christmas. Pastor Jacob can’t ask Kate to swap stage lights for small-town Minnesota—even if he’s falling for her. But these tiny matchmakers might prove she’s found the only role she really wants…

Download or read book An Unexpected Blessing written by Debra St. John and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single Mom Katy Roth thinks life can't get any worse. In the past six months she's been let go at work, had to move back home with her parents, and found out her ex is cutting his child support payment. As Thanksgiving approaches, she finds little to be thankful for in a life that is quickly spinning out of control. Joe Mason is the town's bad boy. Literally. He's just returned from a four year stint in prison. He wants nothing more than to put the past behind him and get on with his life. He's had a secret crush on Katy since grade school, but when Katy's parents hire him to be their handyman, she's less than thrilled to have him around. But soon, through her young son's eyes, Katy discovers the good in Joe. As their feelings for one another deepen, small town gossip and prejudice threaten to ruin everything. Will Joe's past come between them, or will they be able to get beyond it and hold onto a love neither expected?

Download or read book The Unexpected Spy written by Tracy Walder and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs "Reads like the show bible for Homeland only her story is real." —Alison Stewart, WNYC "A thrilling tale...Walder’s fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America’s major intelligence agencies" —Publishers Weekly (starred review) When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she’d fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in the CIA and, later, the FBI. In high-security, steel-walled rooms in Virginia, Walder watched al-Qaeda members with drones as President Bush looked over her shoulder and CIA Director George Tenet brought her donuts. She tracked chemical terrorists and searched the world for Weapons of Mass Destruction. She created a chemical terror chart that someone in the White House altered to convey information she did not have or believe, leading to the Iraq invasion. Driven to stop terrorism, Walder debriefed terrorists—men who swore they’d never speak to a woman—until they gave her leads. She followed trails through North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, shutting down multiple chemical attacks. Then Walder moved to the FBI, where she worked in counterintelligence. In a single year, she helped take down one of the most notorious foreign spies ever caught on American soil. Catching the bad guys wasn’t a problem in the FBI, but rampant sexism was. Walder left the FBI to teach young women, encouraging them to find a place in the FBI, CIA, State Department or the Senate—and thus change the world.

Download or read book HIS UNEXPECTED FAMILY written by Grace Green and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret father Brodie Spencer had loved Kendra since she was a teenager. Now she was a widow with a young daughter, and Brodie longed to help her make a happy family home. But Kendra couldn't risk letting this handsome, bighearted man get close to her…. What if he knew Kendra had never really had a husband as she pretended? That an accident had stolen her memory, and Kendra didn't even know who little Megan's father was. Nor could she remember the one precious night of passion she'd shared with Brodie—nine months before Megan was born….

Download or read book The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns written by David Munroe and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Kearns, a career manual labourer, struggles to overcome stifling cynicism brought on by missed opportunities and mid-life discord - then he loses his job for punching out a Hollywood action star in a bizarre job-site confrontation. In an effort to salvage not only Jim’s sanity but also their unravelling family, his wife, Maddy, assigns him a series of life-affirming tasks to complete while he suffers through unemployment and his fifteen minutes of fame. Through the pages of his journal, we get an often humorous and sometimes touching view of one man’s life journey. At once compelling and hilarious, The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns is the most refreshing novel of the 2005.

Download or read book The Unexpected Baby Situation written by Jacqueline Diamond and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than they bargained for! The Surprise Triplets by Jacqueline Diamond When fertility counselor Melissa Everhart decided to have a baby on her own, she didn’t anticipate triplets…or her ex-husband’s return to Safe Harbor. Edmond has recently been made guardian of his niece, and he turns to Melissa, the warmest, kindest person he knows, for help. The two begin to rediscover the love they once shared, but how can they find the forgiveness they both need? The Baby Switch! by Melissa Senate Single dad Liam Mercer loves his son with all his heart. But the unthinkable has happened—his beloved baby isn’t really his! And Shelby Ingalls is reeling to discover that her baby was accidentally switched with Liam’s. Their solution? Marriage! And the sparks flying in this marriage of convenience sure look a lot like love. USA TODAY Bestselling Author Jacqueline Diamond Previously published as The Surprise Triplets and The Baby Switch!

Download or read book The Widow s Unexpected Suitor written by Lenora Worth and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She thought she’d never find love again Until he built a foundation for it… Amish widow Lilah Mehl wants to make sure her daughter has the wedding she’s always dreamed of—even if it means building a new gazebo. Hiring widowed carpenter Noah Lantz to work on the project is easy, but ignoring their attraction proves more challenging than expected. As the gazebo takes shape, so do new feelings…but is love more than they bargained for? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. Pinecraft Seasons Book 1: Pinecraft Refuge Book 2: The Widow's Unexpected Suitor

Download or read book His Unexpected Baby Bombshell written by Soraya Lane and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His best friend's baby… Best friends Rebecca Stewart and Ben McFarlane were the couple most likely to marry. But when their chemistry finally bubbled over, it was on the night Ben left town to become an international polo champion. Three years later and Ben is back. He's a sports star used to women falling at his feet, and she's a waitress and single mom. But they do have one very important thing in common… Now Rebecca must find the words to tell Ben he's a father!

Download or read book The Marshal s Unexpected Bride written by Christina Rich and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He sent for a nanny… and ended up with a mail-order bride. Marshal Beau Garrett penned a desperate ad for a nanny to wrangle the five unruly children he inherited. So why is this society miss at his jail claiming to be his betrothed? Penelope Parker thought the mail-order bride ad was her salvation when she fled the city and an arranged marriage. Meddling matchmakers may be to blame for the mix-up, but no matter, she won’t go back. With one week to change Beau’s mind, she’ll just hike up her muddied skirts, tame the children and prove to her reluctant groom he needs a wife.

Download or read book The Deputy s Unexpected Family written by Patricia Johns and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspirational romance, a single mom raising her friend’s daughter confronts the child’s father—only to fall in love with the bachelor lawman. Returning home has stirred painful memories for officer Gabe Banks. But responding to a robbery at Harper Kemp’s bridal shop has upended his world. Harper’s adopted four-year-old is the daughter he never knew existed. Gabe’s no longer the bad boy Harper remembers, but he’s still terrified of commitment. Despite their fierce attraction, Harper must protect her little girl’s heart . . . and her own.