Already haunted by a youth of illegitimacy and poverty, Valente Lorenzatto never forgave Caroline Hales's abandonment of him at the altar.But now he's made millions and claimed his aristocratic Venetian birthright-and he's poised to get...
Illegitimate children
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Author:Graham, LynneSummary: - Author:Jackson, LisaSummary:
Shelby Cole has returned to Bad Luck, Texas to search for the daughter she once believed was dead. But she isn't the only one coming home. Ross McCallum, a feared and hated man from Shelby's past, has been released from prison and has...
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Author:Grey, ZaneSummary:The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranchers are led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In...
- Author:Faulkner, WilliamSummary:
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey...
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Author:Hawthorne, NathanielSummary:Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover. When she gives birth to a child, her shame is made public, and in the unforgiving moral atmosphere of colonial Massachusetts, she is made to suffer...
- Author:Massey, BrandonSummary:
Gabriel Reid has led a life of good luck. From a loving family, well educated, and now quite wealthy, he holds an important office in a prominent Atlanta construction company. But good fortune doesn't always last. Isaiah Battle arrives...
- Author:Denton, Lauren K.Summary:
High-school sweethearts Mac and Edie Swan lead a seemingly picture-perfect life in the sleepy-sweet community of Oak Hill, near Mobile, Alabama. Edie is a respected interior designer, Mac is a beloved pediatrician, and they have two...
- Author:Halls, StaceySummary:
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her newborn, Clara, at London's Foundling Hospital, young Bess Bright returns to reclaim the illegitimate daughter she has never really known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care,...
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Author:COX, JosephineSummary:Leonard Mears is a powerful and successful businessman with a hard heart. Ruthlessly presiding over his wife and children, he shuts them away from the outside world and brutally punishes them for any disoberdience. He is also a man with...
- Author:Woods, JanetSummary:
Dorset, 1917. If it's not enough that a girl from a good background is forced to work as a maid, Livia Carr is then violated by the master of the house and becomes pregnant. Her only course is to marry the son of the house, Richard...
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Author:Hobb, RobinSummary:Young Fitz, the illegitimate son of the noble Prince Chivalry, is ignored by all royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has had him tutored him in the dark arts of the assassin. He has barely survived his first, soul-shattering...
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Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:Gloria Murray's daughter jokes that Gloria would have sold her first born to further her musical career - a reproach closer to the truth than anyone but Gloria suspects. Gloria, born just before the Great Depression, knows from the...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool...
- Author:Ross, Ann B.Summary:
Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia...
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Author:Ifkovic, EdSummary:It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming her Texas oil epic, she is looking...
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Author:Forster, E. M.Summary:In turn of the century England, the Wilcoxes are wealthy, the Schlegels are intellectuals and the Basts are poor. But though they are from three different social classes, they are bound by passions, friendships and the occasional murder...
- Author:Maxwell, CathySummary:
The Earl of Marsden has lived his life by his own rules, until his newborn daughter is presented to him. Panicking, he turns to Clarissa Taylor, his biggest critic, for help in raising the child. Sparks will fly.
- Author:Lemmie, AshaSummary:
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a...
- Author:Brennan, Sarah ReesSummary:
The boys of Kings Row are assigned a course of team building exercises to deepen their bonds. It takes a shoplifting scandal, a couple of moonlit forest strolls, and a whole lot of introspection for the team to realize they are stronger...
- Author:Dailey, JanetSummary:
The Calder family patriarch is known throughout Montana as a formidable adversary-a force no one in his right mind would cross. But sometimes love can make a man do crazy things... Ambition drove Joe Dollarhide across the parched plains...
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