Unwilling missing heir
584985
I'm not sure which book of this series, this is but I've read a few and they are very enjoyable and a pleasant read. With Harlequin's you know what you're getting and you don't have to expect surprises.

Cole Henderson, is the legitimate but unknown son of Samuel Henderson owner of a major air company, who died in a plane crash along with his trophy wife and other members of his company. The only heir is a child of nine months, Cole's half-brother but the doesn't want anyone to know that. Cole has his own airline a smaller company based in Alaska. When he realizes that he needs to be sure the child is cared for he decides to visit an airline dinner and fund raiser to see if his brother is in good hands.

When he meets Amber Welsley he knows she's the real deal and honestly loves the child but whoever has the heir can run the airline and there is another person who won't stop until he's on top. Cole has to take some actions to see that everyone is protected, especially Amber.
765764
This was story about my granddaughter who was missing from me from 1975. It brings a conclusion to very sordid affair.
1614868
This is a story of hidden agendas: Both of the main characters have them. Perhaps they are too young, but they do not have the strength of character to state their objectives - so the other partner has a true view of the conditions.

Miranda Wentworth has become too old to stay at the orphanage and she must leave. However, conditions in the Chicago orphanage are so dire that she spirits away her two youngest siblings with her.  Miranda has accepted Jacob Creed's ad for a mail-order bride. Fearing he will not want her with 2 additional mouths to feed, she doesn't mention it and trembles to meet the rancher.

Six months before, Jacob Creed lost his wife and stillborn son. He is desperate for a help mate and someone who can care for his two year-old daughter. Fearing no one would accept him with a child, he neglects to mention her in his ad or letter.

Jacob is so shocked by the loss of his wife in childbirth; he decided that this will be a marriage of convenience. He has no intention of losing another wife. Jacob neglects to mention this condition either in his advertisement for a wife.

This story was cute and quick; Miranda and Jake were interesting.
3 stars on this novel
3838041
Marriage to a cold man is a hard road.  One who is so 'proper' in the sight of others makes it a lonely road as well. Interesting how this still is quite the problem today.  I cried many times, as staying for the children seems to be the way to set them up best. Beautifully told story. She did it...but never gained more than the love of her children. Perhaps that is all that matters.
1557131
While reading this book, I was actually getting annoyed with the dead mother.  What a butinski.  Her daughter, Jenna, was not allowed to make any decisions about her wedding, without feeling she was letting her mother down.

I too felt sorry for Pauline.  What exactly did she do wrong?  Why could they not fix it?  The main reason was the attachment Doug had to the memory of his dead wife.  I wanted to say, get over with it.  Actually would he want one of his children to mope around for years after their spouses death.  It was all too much.  the mother was a saint....and surely no one could EVER replace her.  Life does go on.  I don't think he'll ever be happy, living in the past.

Such extravagance is beyond any belief!  In regards to the whole wedding, weekend.
4036453
What happen to the missing mogul and who is trying to stop the child center. It 's to open for my liken.
990795
Good afternoon truth was a disappointment as it was the birthday of my son who meets the 12/28/14 and pressing several buttons are disarmed appreciate your respuesta. Ya my Daniel is very sad
3759751
Truly I am sorry but I never got past the first page. If you had lost a child you would know there is no moving forward. Once I read that you lost a brother not a child them I stopped. I am sure it was hard watching her grieve wanting her to snap out of it. In some ways this would have been therapeutic to write about your experiences, and your need to have your mother fixed. There is no fixing it. In fact the very idea that some how moving forward causes more grief than just letting be who they are in their grief.
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In Anne Lethbridge's Her Highland Protector, Niall Gilvry is overseeing the Clan Chief's responsibilities in the Chief's absence. He is hoping to do his duty well, and receive a recommendation to an Edinburgh lawyer. This duty includes ensuring Lady Aleyne remains in the castle and causes no trouble. This responsibility is compounded by the arrival of three handpicked suitors. Suitable young men are a rarity in this part of the highlands. And Jenna has a week to choose one as her future husband.
Lady Aleyne resents the reins on her, and sets up a competition, to see which suitor is most worthy of her hand, and the title that goes with it. However kidnapping, being rescued by a gypsy and a midnight flight across the Highlands all lead to Jenna returning to the home she loved. In the time she has been away many changes have occurred, and none of them for the better.
Does she have the courage to take matters further into her own hands and see love is staring her in the face? Ann Lethbridge takes a common plight of the third son, no inheritance, no prospects and skillfully works out a solution for all. Leaving you with enough clues for a third novel in the series
794651
missing location from 2151-2162. is there any way to rectify this?

overall a fairly good read but also a cliff hanger.
2250728
Arnold Random is not happy that his nephew Edward has come back to the village of Greenings after a five-year absence in ... Russia? China? prison?  No one knows, and Edward isn't saying.  In the mean time Arnold's older brother James has died and Arnold has inherited the family seat and acres.  Edward's father Jonathan (the middle brother) died when Edward was small, and Uncle James, a childless widower, had raised him as a son.  Then James and Edward had quarrelled bitterly over a girl Edward wanted to marry.  Edward left Greenings and was not heard from again.  Eventually word came (from somewhere) that he was dead, so James changed his will in favor of Arnold.  Arnold now seems very uncomfortable that Edward is, after all, alive, and especially aggravated that his neighbor Lord Burlingham has had the impertinence to give Edward a job as land agent on his property.

Edward's widowed stepmother Emmeline has lived happily amid a profusion of flowers and cats for the last sixteen years in the lodge of the Random estate, thanks to the kindness of her brother-in-law James.  Now Arnold, in revenge for her stepson's reappearance, wants her gone.  Emmeline understands she has no legal claim on the lodge, but is surprised at the vehemence of Arnold's emotions, sensing that something is making him afraid.  Why is he so afraid of Edward?

An out-of-work (because Arnold fired him) laborer named William Jackson believes he knows the reason, and thinks Arnold needs to know that he knows.  That evening in the church, where Arnold is practicing the organ, William describes witnessing, along with another man, a third will that James Random wrote just a year ago, a few days before his death.  James told William then that Edward had appeared to him in a dream, assuring him he was still alive and would someday return to Greenings.  Despite their quarrel, James couldn't bear the thought that Edward might come home and find that he had no home to come to.  The other witness has since died at sea, so now only William knows about the last will.  Unfortunately, going home, William, a little drunk as usual, slips and drowns while crossing the stepping stones that serve instead of a footbridge over a nearby stream.

A few days later Miss Silver is seated at a table in a London teashop, enjoying some well-earned refreshment after a tiring trip through the shops in quest of pre-war wool for her knitting, when a young woman asks if she may join her.  She knows who Miss Silver is: a policeman friend of hers once pointed her out as someone who had helped with a difficult case.  She would just like some advice.  She's a nurse.  Last year she had a patient who rewrote his will after his missing nephew appeared to him in a dream; later he told her he could now die in peace knowing his nephew would have his inheritance when he returned.  The nephew has come home but knows nothing of all this.  What should she do?  Be careful, says Miss Silver: this is dangerous.  It's not long before an item in the evening paper sends Miss Silver to Greenings to visit the daughter of an old school friend who is now the vicar's wife.  By then her calm, rational presence is needed as local gossip has begun to turn vicious.

This is a classic village mystery, expressive of a deep understanding of English country life.  The village is an organism; every action, every thought affects the lives and fates of others.  The past must not be ignored because it cannot be escaped.  Maud Silver and Patricia Wentworth can be depended upon to set everything right again.
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It is an interesting study in how some heirs just run out of energy and the will to pass forward what they have received.  They become so self centered and into self their own gratification that nothing else matters.  These heirs did not make bad business decisions.  They basically just did not care what happened to those who follow them in their families.
2490192
Replacing his partner with a never known before Niece fell short for me.  I think this book spent too much time on establishing a family lineage from presumed Niece because of matching blue eyes, to Sister, to Father.  Relatively limited excitement.
2819550
Why did Elizabeth flunk out of the first adoption hearing?  Not fully explained. Would love to see an alternative ending if Elizabeth had succeeded
1720140
Andrew Young is not a sympathetic character. He has a law degree and his dream job was being John Edward's errand boy? Yes, he was used and abused by the Edwards but was too dumb to realize it. How he thought that Edwards would fess up to being Rielle's daughter's father is beyond me. Simple logic dictates otherwise.
Young should be grateful his wife did not take the kids and get out of there. She put up with much more than I ever would have.
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The prologue starts with the impending wedding of Ursula to an unknown person.  What follows is the story of how she came to her decision to remarry soon after the death of her French Catholic husband Matthew de la Roche.
Ursula goes on an unathorized trip in pursue of her traitor cousin Edward at the behest of her estranged Aunt and Uncle.  After an exhausting trip to Scotland to stop Edward from delivering a list of Catholic sympathizers to Queen Mary, see finds her cousin murdered.
Ursula set out to investigate his death in the courts of Mary of Scotland and the her "supporters".  There she expriences unwanted attentions from a suiter that culminates in a dual.  An not unexpected revealation is made about Ursula's paternaty and all ends with her proposal to a character she meets on her adventure to Scotland
This book takes the series in a new direction.  Though she claims to want a change of pace from her secret agent days she seems hardly sure.  Since the marriage hasn't occured, so there is a cliffhanger at the end (or beginning).
4830731
The book was a nice example of agrandmother's love for her grandchildren but didn't explain why the mother had no more responsibility for monetary support for them when she was able to afford a nice place, etc for herself.  It was clear why both mother/daughter felt about each other because of past history.