Harlequin Next
3 total works
You DON'T PICK YOUR FAMILY, BUT YOU CAN LOVE THEM.
Somebody ought to pinch Neely Mason. An all-around-perfect man has asked her to marry him. Suddenly the sister voted most likely to become the resident "crazy neighborhood cat lady" is tying the knot at forty-five.
Now the hard part. Neely has to tell her cheerfully opinionated (read: outrageous) family the news. Soon Mom is issuing matrimonial orders like a wedding planner on steroids, baby sis, Vidalia, is actually making sense for once and normally chipper Savannah seems so lost.
Can the Mason sisters pull through this wedding and still keep their fragile bond intact? Because one thing's for sure, when it comes to family, crazy is a relative term.
"There's no way I would have ever imagined swapping datinghorror stories with my mother-in-law. But life is now officially very, very weird."
In Eleven Short Months Charlotte Smith Has:
A. Become a widow too soon
B. Had her job transferred out of state
C. Driven over 1500 miles with two cranky kids
D. Moved in with her mother-in-law, Rose Fiorello Smith (a cross between Mary Poppins and Napoleon)
For Charlotte aka Charlie, dealing with bumps in the road is a fact of life lately. Maybe it's time she made Rose realize that embracing change isn't about waving goodbye, but saying hello to a life where limits are for sissies...and a new beginning is only a new hairdo away.
Instant motherhood felt a lot like being under house arrest...
When a corporate oversight lands her new husband in jail, Kate St. James feels as if she's the one being sentenced. True, her ritzy new home in the suburbs looks nothing like the Big House. But for a woman barely able to keep her tropical fish afloat, Kate's not expecting time off for good behavior when she becomes an instant mother to her husband's two children!
Still, somewhere between dealing with a burned bake sale project, PTA meetings and preteen dating, Kate realizes she's never felt so free. Because being a good mother isn't about being perfect. It's about being there. For the kids, her husband...and herself.