Best-selling author Mary-Beth Hughes delivers a seductive, deeply human, and sophisticated collection about the universal need to be loved, and the complicated imperfections that jeopardize the ties that bind us.The stories in Double Happiness are extraordinary portrayals of the ordinariness of life. By pinpointing those moments of discord when personal needs and morality clash with circumstances beyond our control, Hughes challenges our concepts of responsibility, trust, resilience, and betrayal. In Pelican Song,” a thirty-year-old modern dancer who moonlights as a movieticket taker visits her parent’s picturesque home to discover that her stepfather has begun mistreating her too-accommodating mother; Horse” follows maladjusted honeymooners in Atlantic City whose romantic weekend is saved from emotional catastrophe by a horse that refuses to dive from its pedestal into the ocean; and a holiday in New York City turns from shopping... Views: 47
Science Fiction/Fantasy. 58497 words long. Views: 47
RetaiilOn October 20, 2006, a middle-aged auto mechanic, Jeff Markin, walked into the emergency room at the Palm Beach GardensHospital and collapsed from a massive heart attack. Forty minutes later he was declared dead. After filling out his final report, the supervising cardiologist, Dr. Chauncey Crandall, started out of the room. "Before I crossed its threshold, however, I sensed God was telling me to turn around and pray for the patient," Crandall explained. With that prayer and Dr. Crandall's instruction to give the man what seemed one more useless shock from the defibrillator, Jeff Markin came back to life—and remains alive and well today. But how did a Yale-educated cardiologist whose Palm Beach practice includes some of the most powerful people in American society, including several billionaires, come t... Views: 47
Army Captain Walker Larson is shocked when a captivating young woman walks into his office-claiming to be his wife. Unfortunately for Lacy, the handsome Texan didn't know his father bought him a woman in a "wife lottery," and he's not interested in settling down. Crushed, the broken beauty leaves her dreams behind and returns home to Cedar Point. Three years later, it's Lacy who's stunned when Walker shows up on her doorstep. Trading one tour of duty for another, he's been ordered to protect Lacy from an enemy out for revenge. Wanting nothing to do with her errant husband, Lacy is powerless to resist his protection-and passionate kisses. With a flicker of hope, can she forgive the seductive soldier who once drove her away?but now holds the key to her heart? Views: 47
What if the man you loved told you God wanted him to take another wife? What if that woman was your best friend?Set in the heart of the earliest days of a new nineteenth-century sect known as the Saints, The Sister Wife is a riveting account of two women forced into a practice they don't understand, bound by their devotion to Prophet Joseph Smith. When Mary Rose marries Gabriel, neither of them could foresee how quickly the community would turn to the practice of plural marriage. Devastated when Gabe is faced with an order from the Prophet to marry her best friend, Bronwyn, Mary Rose tries to have the faith to carry through with the marriage. But can she really be married to the same man as her very best friend?Can Mary Rose and Bronwyn face betraying both their husband and their God to do what they feel is right? Views: 47
