Bøger af Elizabeth Langston

A genealogy search reveals heartrending connections between friends as it brings to light one woman's traumatic past as a teenage mother in the 1960s.In a quiet North Carolina town in 1968, a seventeen-year-old girl's life is forever changed when a summer romance leads to an unplanned pregnancy. She is sent to an abusive "maternity home," where she is shamed and deceived into signing adoption papers.In the present day, Allison Garrett volunteers as a "search angel," using DNA tests to help strangers locate lost relatives. But the family tree she finds most compelling is that of her own mother, who was abandoned as a baby. As Allison puts the pieces together, they reveal much more than her mother's origins--and threaten to create further divisions in her tight-knit community.When a family is separated by devastating circumstances, is it possible for them to heal the pain of the past and make up for lost time?

Lillian Guthrie has it all. Beautiful apartment, more clothes than she could ever wear in a year and the dream job. What else could a girl want? Lillian is sent on a business trip to Los Angeles to keep a business tycoon and an old client from suing each other. Lillian has always had one rule in her life: Love them and leave them, but Garrett O'Connell had her fighting feelings she didn't know she was capable of. Garrett O'Connell's hotel is in trouble when a famed baseball player assaults one of his hotel staff and a PR rep arrives on the scene to help him. He doesn't think he needs help but Lillian helps him quickly realize the error of his ways. She is beautiful and far too tempting and is very good at her job. He shouldn't be lusting after someone who is helping him but the way she looks at him tells him that she isn't immune to him either. Lillian has to remind herself that she is in Los Angeles for work not to find romance. But a wicked night of passion has her second guessing everything she had thought about relations. But he's a client and lives in another town. So nothing could come of this, right? A person from Lillian's past resurfaces and jeopardizes all that she had built over the years. A person she hoped to never see again. A person she sent to jail ten years ago. She has no choice but to confess her deepest secret to Garrett. She learns she can no longer fight her enemy alone and together with Garrett she discovers she is not alone and he will stand beside her. Can she trust this man with her heart or will her secret past be too much and have her on the run?

Two sisters fulfilling their grandfather's dying wish uncover decades of secrets in a powerful novel about family, truth, and forgiveness.Dallas, Dealey Plaza, 1963. Nineteen-year-old Mariah Byrne is following her dream of a career in photography. One moment she's filled with joy and hope watching the president and Mrs. Kennedy drive past. In the next, the world--and Mariah's life--is split into before and after. What follows, and the unconventional decisions Mariah makes, will affect her and her family forever.Sixty years later, sisters Raine and Jessica grieve the death of their grandfather. For both his beloved grand girls, Papa leaves behind a last wish and an unexpected keepsake: the key to their grandmother Mariah's hope chest. Explore its contents, he writes, and follow where they lead. But what secrets can their family history possibly hold?Raine and Jessica unite to piece together the mystery of a past they never knew existed. But facts can't reveal the whole story. With Mariah's memories fading, the sisters struggle to understand her choices before the truth disappears forever.

I have never been useless in my life.Rescued from a life of servitude by the boy she loves, Susanna Marsh escapes across two centuries, only to be plunged into a world she's ill-prepared to face. Unable to work or go to school, Susanna finds herself dependent on others to survive.Immersed in the fun and demands of his senior year of high school, Mark Lewis longs to share his world with the girl who's captured his heart. But first he must tackle government bureaucracy to prove Susanna's identity.Overwhelmed by her new home, Susanna seeks refuge in history and in news of the people she left behind. But when she learns that danger stalks her sister, Susanna must weigh whether to risk her own future in order to save Phoebe's happiness.

Their long-distance friendship spanned two hundred years…While training for a mountain bike race, high-school senior Mark Lewis spots a mysterious girl dressed in odd clothing, standing behind a waterfall in the woods near his North Carolina home. When she comments on the strange machine that he rides, he suspects something isn't right. When Susanna claims to be an indentured servant from 1796, he wonders if she's crazy. Yet he feels compelled to find out more.Mark enters a "long-distance" relationship with Susanna through the shimmering and temperamental barrier of Whisper Falls. Curious about her world, Mark combs through history to learn about the brutal life she's trapped in. But knowledge can be dangerous. Soon he must choose between the risk of changing history--or dooming the girl he can't stop thinking about to a lifetime of misery.

She can't forget what she's lost. He shows her there's more to be found.Months after the loss of her twin, Sara Tucker is still struggling to recover. She ought to be getting ready for college; instead, she's frozen in place. But when her plans for the future unravel, Sara knows she can no longer handle her problems alone.Grant is a supernatural being, dedicated to serving humans in need. He's enjoying his promotion to guardian, but he's restless, too. There's someone he met on a previous assignment that he wants to help-except Sara needs wishes, and Grant's not a genie anymore.When his league accepts her case, Grant volunteers to go. As he works beside Sara to fix the mess of her life, they may both discover that, sometimes, the best way forward is to find a new path.