I recently spent some quality browsing-time in my local San Jose, California Barnes & Noble store, and was surprised to see a staffer taking down one of the Harlequin endcaps (permanently) and unshelving romances onto a cart.
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Jack Galloway's brother and his wife were killed in an accident. And now, Jack's been named guardian to their three children...along with his ex-wife, Roz.
I recently spent some quality browsing-time in my local San Jose, California Barnes & Noble store, and was surprised to see a staffer taking down one of the Harlequin endcaps (permanently) and unshelving romances onto a cart.
What happens when a woman that loves, high-heels, her air conditioned office and her job is forced to take a three week course in survival training with an at risk teen?
In Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr, Leslie has a horribly dysfunctional family--an alcoholic gambler for a father, a drug abuser for a brother who sells her to his drugged-up friends, and a runaway mom. She’s desperate to have normalcy in her life and drawn to a shop to get a tattoo. Not any tattoo, but one that will bind her to the Dark King of the fey.
This was a very well-written story about a woman who returns to the small Nantucket neighborhood she grew up in. She must face a lot of demons from her childhood and teenage years, including the paternity of her daughter, and the boy who was her best friend and is now her next door neighbor and the island vet.
I am currently reading Life Strategies For Teens by Jay McGraw.
Life Strategies For Teens
Jay McGraw
Young Adult
236 pages