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Everyone knows that feisty, sensual Gerry Fitzgerald wasn't always so outspoken. As a young novitiate, Gerry became pregnant, fleeing the altar just as she was about to take her vows to become a nun and never breathing a word about why. Twenty-eight years later the child she gave up for adoption has returned, a grown woman looking for answers. Now Gerry must learn how to defuse the years of guilt, shame, and bitterness that divide her from her daughter....

Traces the intersecting lives of three women five years after a fateful love affair, including Tia, who gave up her baby for adoption; Caroline, the adoptive mother; and Juliette, who views her husband's affair differently upon learning about the baby.

Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She's spent her life looking into strangers' faces, fantasizing they're related to her, and now, at thirty-five, she's ready for answers. Meanwhile, the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life, announcing that they're sisters and campaigning to track down their mother. She's too busy with her successful salon, three...

Bestselling author Georgia Bockoven is at her powerful and emotional peak in this novel perfect for fans of Nancy Thayer and Elin Hilderbrand.Unlock the door to the beach housea place where life slows down, people come together, and love is the strongest force of all.After youve given your baby to strangers, what do you say when someone asks if you have children?Fourteen years ago, Melinda Campbell was fifteen and a half, pregnant and terrified. Desperate...