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Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jackson's mother, Kayla, can no longer cope. Having tragically lost her husband and son, Kayla is crippled with grief and unable to manage Jackson's challenging behaviour. Aggressive, confrontational, and often running away, Jackson's mother puts him into foster care. He remains volatile. Cathy, his carer, encourages Jackson to talk about what has happened but he won't engage. His actions continue to test and worry everyone. Adrian, Cathy's son, fears...
Author
Series
Laura Principal volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
British private eye Laura Principal investigates the bludgeoning of a 60-year-old woman by her 11-year-old foster son. Although the boy confessed to the crime, it is not clear what made him do it. Did the woman contribute to her death?
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Angel in the family: Sisters, separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding, find themselves brought back together for one amazing Christmas where a miracle will make you believe the impossible.
Fielder's choice: The uncomplicated life of a promising ad exec is disrupted when he's given custody of his autistic nephew. But as one learns from the other, two hearts open up, and a future of unexpected possibilities await.
Ordinary miracles: A troubled...
Author
Series
[Love story duet volume 1
Publisher
Forever Yours
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"I've been a fighter all my life, even before I made it my career. As a kid in the foster system, I didn't have any other choice. But I've never fought for something--for someone--as hard as I fought for Lucy. I was her protector, her hero--and she was my everything. From the day we met, she made our grim days in Atlanta's notorious Brighton Park fade away--leaving only us. But we broke each other's hearts, and we did a damn good job of it. A decade...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
©2023.
Language
English
Description
A stranger in his house…Could be the family he never knew he neededAfter he spent six months on the road, the last thing cowboy Wilder Littlefield expects to come home to is a pregnant woman living on his ranch. Taylor Matheson not only believes the house is hers, but she’s carrying his estranged late brother’s child. Tied together by blood, Wilder lets Taylor stay as his housekeeper. But as they learn how to be a family, could obligation turn...
Author
Series
The Amish of Lawrence County volume Book 3
Publisher
The Tracer Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Secrets from the past make a full circle as Daniel Miller faces the truth about his Amish family. Raised English, he was left to fight his way through foster care, believing he had no living relatives other than his imprisoned mother. Only after finding his biological sister, Emma, was he made aware of Bishop Shetler's lies and deceit. When life becomes too hard to bear, will Daniel turn his back on his family and drown the pain like his father did...
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her experiences with her family's second foster child, a troubled thirteen-year-old girl with Addison's disease who witnessed her mother's suicide attempt, and who was physically abusive of her foster family.
10) Pretty reckless
Author
Series
All Saints High volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"They say revenge is a dish best served cold... Penn Scully has had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to him, and now his heart is completely iced over. He took her first kiss, and she took away the only person he ever loved. He asked her to save the rest of her firsts for him, and she walked all over his heart in stiletto heels and left it bleeding out on a bright summer day. Now, everything has changed. When circumstances leave Penn...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to know more about this lost sibling. A solitary young woman,...