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A Soft Place To Fall
Berkley, Nov 2001, 6.99, 340 pp. ISBN: 0425182169 When his much younger friend asked wealthy Warren Bancroft for a place to hide for a while, he arranges for investor Sam Butler to stay at Shelter Rock Cove, Maine. Warren also manipulated the staying at a nearby beach cottage of Annie Galloway. The widow struggles to regain her life ever since her spouse Kevin died leaving her with quite a debt and a loss of innocence. Warren loves S...
Chances Are
Berkley, Sep 2004, 6.99, 336 pp. ISBN: 0425197964 In Jersey Shore town Paradise Point Maddy Bainbridge and Aidan O'Malley are getting married. The twosome knows that they must also work extra hard to form a family unit that includes her five years old daughter Hannah and his seventeen years old daughter Gina. However, neither was prepared for the nuttiness of her family who are driving Maddy to think of eloping. All this lunacy is occurring in...
Girls of Summer
Berkley, Nov 2003, 5.99, 368 pp. ISBN: 0425192695 Obstetrician gynecologist Ellen Markowitz loves living in Shelter Rock Cove however, not as much as she loves Dr. Hall Talbot. She knows her feelings remain unrequited as he still loves Annie Galloway, who is married to someone else and has been for quite awhile. Ellen and Hall get drunk one evening and share a passionate night of love. The next day both are awkward with one another sharing t...
Shore Lights
Berkley, May 2003, 400 pp. ISBN: 0425189872 Maddy Bainbridge and her four-year-old child Hannah leave Seattle to help her mom run the Candlelight Inn in Paradise, New Jersey. Although she has been away from home for fifteen years, Maddy needs work as an accountant and Hannah needs a change of scenery after her father left them and remarried. Over the Internet, Maddy gets into a bidding war over a dented teapot. She gets the last bid winning...