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Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn’t have any complaints. She’s been in a stable marriage that’s lasted almost three decades and has provided her with two wonderful children and thousands of family dinners around a sturdy oak table. Other wives envy the fact that Grant is not the type of man who would ever cheat on her or leave her for a younger woman. The trouble is Annabelle isn’t sure she wants to be married to Grant anymore. The trouble is she’s still in love with someone else.
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Don’t pass this one up.
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By: Maddie Dawson
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Finding Our Forever
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The search for her birth mother brought Cora Kelly to the New Horizons Boys Ranch. Getting a job there was easy enough, but confiding in Aiyana, the ranch's owner, that she's really her daughter? Cora's not sure she can do that, not unless she's confident the news will be welcomed. And once she gets to know Elijah Turner - Aiyana's adopted son and ranch manager - that decision becomes even more difficult.
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First book by Brenda Novak
- By Katiemac on 06-03-17
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Unexpected Love
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When I said, "I do," I meant it for life. When he said, "I do," he didn't mean it at all. Divorced and single, I'm ready to find true love. When a business deal requires me to create an online dating account, I find myself drawn to Mister_Mystery. He's not looking for love. I'm not looking for another lie.
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Not for me
- By 🔵🔷🔹Kaly🔹🔷🔵 on 06-03-20
By: Kristin Mayer
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Every Little Thing
- By: Marie Force
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Grayson Coleman has just moved home to Butler, Vermont after spending years working for a high-powered law firm in Boston. He's looking for a simpler, less stressful existence in the sleepy little mountain town where he grew up with his siblings and Abbott cousins. Once the holidays are over, he plans to hang out a shingle and open a new general law practice. After helping to raise his seven younger siblings, the last thing on Grayson's mind is a family of his own.
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Great Book, Narrator Issue
- By Sandy on 03-22-17
By: Marie Force
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Something She's Not Telling Us
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Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a small-but-thriving flower shop, and her sweet, smart five-year-old daughter, Daisy. Her relationship with her mother might be strained, but the distance between them helps. And her younger brother Rocco may have horrible taste in women, but when he introduces his new girlfriend to Charlotte and her family, they are cautiously optimistic that she could be The One. Daisy seems to love Ruth, and she can’t be any worse than the klepto Rocco brought home the last time.
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Should be "Something Almost Happened"
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Then You Happened
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When Sierra's father died, he left her in charge of the family business. At the age of 28, Sierra Adams became CEO of Adams Advertising & Design, one of the top 10 advertising agencies in the world. Her work was her life. She lived and breathed it every day, leaving little time for play. Having once been in a relationship that completely destroyed her, Sierra vowed to use men for one thing only: SEX. No strings, no problems, and most importantly, no heartache.
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I love Sandi Lynn's Books!!!
- By Frances Sarabia on 03-04-15
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An Amazing Holiday Read
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Not great
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- Joanne Baker
- 01-27-24
Easy listening
characters are good, plot line easy to follow. I'm ready for the next book in the series.
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- Stacey
- 04-18-24
Very cute Rom-Com
Sweet story of love and family and friendship. I did want to slap Heathers mom though, can’t stand that lady!
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- Kelly Scott
- 06-24-24
So gooooood!!!
I couldn’t put this one down!! SM delivers another wonderful story! I recommend this very highly!
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- Mistiehale
- 07-05-23
The happiness plan
The story was different. It took me forever to read it. I don’t know it just moved very slowly. It was emotional, but for some reason felt like it was lacking some thing I remembered the character of Heather from the book sisters by choice and that was a great book but the way Heather was in this book was sort of a contradiction to the way she was when she was younger. I think I had a hard time. Grasping that 15 years had passed even though in reality, it’s more like three. Maybe that was the biggest problem.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-17-23
Confusing
It took some time to understand that there are three separate stories developing as there where no hints that chapters are changing or that the focus has shifted to different character. Story itself is not really relatable or interesting.
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- Thomas J. Epps
- 06-25-23
great book
enjoyed this book. it's fun to have some characters from earlier books return . worthwhile
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- Amy Hendrick
- 12-05-23
Good story/fair performance
The story was good with variety and some unique twists.
The performance was fair. The reader was very choppy and emotional was flat.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-02-23
Romance for Betty Draper
This novel tells the stories of several women struggling to balance careers, children, friendships and their personal lives. It resolves these balance issues by encouraging downgrading careers and committing to heteronormative, male head of household relationships. The refrain is that women are happiest having babies and being at home "not leaving their baby at daycare for someone else to raise while they work 60-70 hours per week", which is basically a quote from the book that shows up ....myriad times. The terrible life choices that lead a woman to be a partner in a law firm in her mid 30s are fundamentally incompatible with love and motherhood, as evidenced by the fact that she starts having, gasp, lunch with some dude who then comes on to her. Thus, Eve is guilty of an emotional affair for which she must repent by losing a pregnancy, downgrading her career and deferring to her insecure partner. And everything is as it should be. That is ONE storyline, perhaps the most overt. If 1950's social norms are your thing, then this is for you. If you like to feel guilty about being a woman and doing anything besides staying at home, raising kids and going to church, this is for you. If your identity IS the aforementioned and you want that affirmed, this is for you. If you have even an ounce of post 60's feminism in your soul, this will probably make you want to throw things....I recommend the book, if you have it.
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- Mindy Kiper
- 06-26-23
happiness
loved The Happiness Plan!! Susan Mallery never disappoints. Thank you for another great read!
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- Jacqueline
- 10-16-23
Annoyed by the characters
I love Susan Mallory books. However, in this one, two of her main characters are so dysfunctional and scared of life that it is driving me crazy. I suppose there are people in the world like this, but it is just so hard to listen to about it. I’m not sure I can make it through the entire book at this point.
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