"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...

In this clear-eyed, urgent tale—set in 1960s France, but feeling acutely timely—Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a bright young student with a promising future. But when she becomes pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her background slipping away. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison...

O'Connell is a smart twentysomething who treats her pregnancy like a new project, researching and planning. She envisions a natural birth and a year of wholesome breast feeding. But things do not go as she expects. Life throws curveballs, and after 40 hours of contractions, she opts for a C-section. She manages to nurse for a year but resents her baby's control over her body. This is not a book about the wonders of motherhood but about the tension...

Four teenage girls.Four different stories.What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies.In rural Georgia, Izella is wise beyond her years, but burdened with the responsibility of her older sister, Ola, who has found out she's pregnant.Their young neighbor, Missippi, is also pregnant, but doesn't fully understand the extent of her predicament.When her father sends her to Chicago to give birth, she meets the final narrator,...

Scandal does not define the "fallen" ladies of Puddledon Manor's Benevolent Home. Instead, it's a recipe for an intoxicating new future as the women combine their talents--to operate their own brewery and alehouse . . .When Penelope Barnes arrived at the Home with her young daughter, she discovered a knack for horticulture--and for cultivating the hops needed to produce a superlative pint. She put her scandalous affair with Harry Graham firmly in...

"From the award-winning author of Over the Plain Houses, comes a major novel about two young women contending with unplanned pregnancies in different eras. Edie Carrigan didn't plan to "get herself" pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie's closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands...

"Buttoned-up PA Cecelia Andrews's resignation released her secret raw desire for her demanding playboy boss Luka Kargas. Now, one year after his callous dismissal, Cecelia's hiding an even greater secret--their daughter! She'll never let cold-hearted Luka make her daughter feel unwanted. But when Luka uncovers her deceit there's no escaping the consequences of her passionate surrender..."--Provided by the publisher.

Claiming his one-night baby Callie Smith gave up everything to care for her alcoholic father. After his death, she's finally able to follow her own dreams. And what better way to celebrate than by spending an out-of-character-but outrageously sinful-night with gorgeous Italian prince Luca Fabrizio? To preserve his family dynasty, Luca was planning to marry a convenient bride-until Callie reveals the consequences of their heated encounter! Having...

One week of pure pleasure... Bound for ever by the consequences! Famed for his ruthless restraint, Matt Taylor has only ever lost control around one woman. But his red-hot Melbourne fling with Hannah Murphy is firmly in the past - until she surprises him outside his London office... seven months pregnant! Hannah has flown across the globe to reveal her recently discovered pregnancy. But Matt's guarded reaction leaves her wondering how he can be the...

"Winnifred "Win" McNulty has always been wildly independent and not one to be coddled for her limb difference. Win has spent most of her life trying to prove that she can do it all on her own. With some minor adjustments, she's done just fine. Then a one-night stand at a costume party with the incredibly charming Bo changes everything. Win finds herself pregnant--and decides to keep it. While Bo is surprisingly elated to step up to the plate, Win...