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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
One minute, Rhett Lockhart is a love em and leave em bull rider with a slow, sexy smile, a swagger, and not a care in the world. The next, he learns his free-wheeling days are over: a baby has been abandoned in the hospital, and theres no question: hes the father. But from the first moment he gazes into his daughters eyes, he knows the moment has come to say no to no-strings. Its time to grow up. Standing in his way is the babys foster mother, Tara...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 22
Language
English
Description
Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it's all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she's plunged back into the past, to the days when she was a vulnerable, traumatized girl - trapped in foster care with the twisted woman who now sits in...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth's new novel has it all. For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life. But their childhood wasn't the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. Miss Fairchild...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Daisy was five when she first entered Harrison's bustling household. Mother of three children by birth, three by adoption, and a handful of foster kids always coming and going. Harrison had ten children under her roof at any given time. But Daisy was, in many ways, unique. Unlike the parents of most of Kathy's foster kids, Daisy's birth mother wasn't poor, uneducated, or drug-addicted. She just could not take care of her child, and the effects of...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her--people the law has failed. They've formed an underground network of "helpers," each agreeing to...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's unplanned adoption of an abused fifteen-year-old girl who was placed in her care after a community rescue, documenting their steps toward forging a family life that neither knew they needed.
9) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
When stay-at-home mom Jude Farraday takes in Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, the girl becomes inseparable from Jude's teenage twins before a shattering accident rips the family apart and sets the stage for a sobering confrontation years later.
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