Merry Jones
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A tortured child returns to the school that failed him
Since her husband's murder two years earlier, life hasn't been easy for Elle Harrison. Now, at the start of a new school year, the second grade teacher is determined to move on. She's selling her house and delving into new experiences, like learning trapeze.
Just before the first day of school, Elle learns that a former student, Ty Evans, has been released from juvenile detention, where he...
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Iraq War veteran Harper Jennings copes with physical scars as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but she's determined to move on with her life. In fact, she's studying archeology and working as a teaching assistant at Cornell University. Together with her husband, Hank Jennings, she's renovating an old Victorian-style house. Life is rosy, At least it is until Hank, doing repairs, falls off the roof. And though he survives the fall, he sustains...
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Elle Harrison is back! She and her pals Jen, Becky, and Susan travel to Mexico where Jen has arranged cosmetic surgery, after which she will recover in a plush hotel suite. But more is going on at the hotel than tummy tucks. Soon after they arrive, Elle sees the woman in the suite next door fall from her sixth floor balcony. When the room is later occupied by another patient, Elle finds her brutally mutilated body on that same balcony. Police question...
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Elle finds the body of her soon-to-be-ex husband, Charlie on her sofa, stabbed to death with her kitchen knife. Elle's close friends stand by her through the difficult funeral, but Elle alone must face the loss of the man she'd loved. Except that the loss is not total--Charlie is still around. Elle feels his presence, smells his after shave. Hears him accuse her of killing him. And even though she doesn't believe in ghosts, she argues with him, asserting...
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Birthmothers presents intimate and stirring accounts of more than seventy women who surrendered babies for adoption. It follows their lives long-term, from discovery of their pregnancies through the present, and identifies the Birthmother Syndrome-a pattern of behavior and emotions resulting from surrender. With heartwarming candor, Birthmothers reveals the stories of the invisible side of the adoption triangle, and touches everyone involved in adoption,...
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This three-book collection delivers laugh-out-loud moments, but at its core is deadly darkness
Elle Harrison, a fourth-grade teacher, has had a life without adversity until her husband's infidelity-and other much worse catastrophes-disrupts her world.
In The Trouble with Charlie, Elle's soon-to-be ex-husband has been stabbed to death; she wonders whether she could have done it in one of those 'foggy' moments her friends call 'pulling an Elle.' When...