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When thirty-year-old Helen Pratt marries Adam Montgomery, his teenaged daughter Missy makes Helen's role as her new stepmother a very difficult one. Helen and Adam desire to start a family of their own, but it's young Missy who becomes pregnant. Having not become a mother herself, Helen must now prepare for her role as step-grandmother unaware of the enormous impact the little boy will have on her life.
ALMOST MINE is a story of how an unanswered prayer became a blessing. It introduces readers to thirty-year-old journalist Helen Pratt, who has just met her future husband, architect Adam Montgomery. Helen is more concerned that Adam is thirteen years older than the fact that he has a spoiled eighteen-year-old daughter, Missy, living with him. br />
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Helen attempts to build a relationship with Missy while developing a deeper one with Adam. After their marriage, Helen and Adam attempt to start a family of their own. While living at college, Missy becomes | |  | | Good Fridays
For seven decades Emily Carmichael kept diaries about growing up in Baltimore, her career, two marriages, and the infant daughter she gave up for adoption. Now those diaries are about to change the relationship between a mother and daughter traveling from Denver to Baltimore for Emily's funeral. Spanning fifteen hundred miles, three generations, and one life-changing secret, GOOD FRIDAYS is the story of how one person's decision affects many.
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GOOD FRIDAYS A novel by Diane MarquetteFor thirty years Sara has endured a relationship with Vicki, her manipulative, paranoid and narcissistic mother. After extensive counseling, Sara is now prepared to challenge her mother’s chronic abusive treatment.
The two women are beginning a five-day road trip from Denver to Baltimore to attend the funeral of Emily, an elderly woman with whom Vicki worked many years earlier when she and Sara still lived in Maryland. br />
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Sara had already decided to have the confrontation with her mother during this trip, but now Sara has ano | |  | | In Over My Head
In this first book in the Chesapeake Conference Center Mystery Series by Diane Marquette, Jill McCormick works as the night security guard at an exclusive, high-level conference center on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. When the drowning of a prominent guest begins to look more like murder, Jill and her lover, deputy Mitch Garrett, conduct an investigation of their own, even though it may implicate both their bosses in murder.
In Over My Head is the first book in the Chesapeake Conference Center Mystery Series by Diane Marquette.
The prestigious Chesapeake Conference Center is situated on a secluded parcel of 200 wooded acres on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Despite its rustic setting, the Center offers its guests four-star accommodations and is one of the top-rated meeting facilities in the United States. Highest-level government groups from nearby Washington, D.C. meet here on a regular basis, as do international organizations regarding finance and technology.br />
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The body of Dr | |  | | Suitable For Framing
In this third book in the Chesapeake Conference Center Mystery Series, the Governor of Maryland holds his annual staff retreat at the prestigious conference facilty, and sheriff's deputy and former conference center security guard Jill McCormick is assigned as the bodyguard to the governor's threatened bride. Jill quickly realizes this assignment may be her biggest challenge yet as she gathers evidence in the case while protecting the second First Lady, a former beauty queen and royal pain.
Suitable For Framing is the third book in the Chesapeake Conference Center Mystery Series by Diane Marquette.
Having once worked as a murder-solving security guard at the prestigious Chesapeake Conference Center, and having saved the life of the President of the United States during a global summit at the center, local Sheriff’s Deputy Jill McCormick figures she’s got the makings of a pretty good resume.br />
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When Maryland’s Governor chooses the secluded site on the Eastern Shore for his annual staff retreat, he contacts his former colle | |  | | Too Close For Words
Former Chesapeake Conference Center security guard, Jill McCormick, is summoned by the U.S. Secret Service to assist in security operations during an international summit at the pestigious facility. After Jill discovers evidence of a potential bomb on the conference center property, she confronts the would-be assassin, putting herself, as well as the President and other world leaders, in deadly danger.
Too Close For Words is the second book in the Chesapeake Conference Center Mystery Series by Diane Marquette.
Jill McCormick worked as the security guard at the world-renowned Chesapeake Conference Center on Maryland's Eastern Shore during many high-level government meetings, including the Mideast Peace Talks and the historic United Nations conference. The fact that during her employment there Jill solved a murder and single-handedly apprehended the killer hasn't hurt her reputation in law enforcement either.br />
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Now a deputy with the local sheriff's department, Jil |
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