The door to her bedroom opened and Meredith hastily yanked the picture from her chest as the stout, sixty-year-old housekeeper came in to take her dinner tray away."You didn't eat your dessert," Mrs.
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Her gaze switched to Parker's picture, and a dreamy smile drifted across her face as she clasped the newspaper clipping to what would have been her breasts if she had breasts, which she didn't. Her gaze shifted to her picture and she regretted again the streak of vanity that had caused her to take off her glasses for the photograph without them she had a tendency to squint - just like she was doing in that awful picture."Contact lenses would definitely help," she concluded. It did not seem at all fair that the other girls who were fourteen, just a few small weeks older than she was, should look so wonderful while she looked like a flat-chested troll with braces.
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Impartially, Meredith compared herself to the other girls in the elf costumes, wondering, how they could manage to look leggy and curvy while she looked."Dumpy!" she pronounced with a pained grimace."I look like a troll, not an elf!" Standing off to the left, supervising the proceedings, was a handsome young man of eighteen, who the caption referred to as "Parker Reynolds III, son of Mr. Beneath the caption picture of the "elves" - five boys and five girls, including Meredith - who were handing out presents to the children's ward. The caption read, Children of Chicago socialites, dressed as elves, participate in charity Christmas pageant at Oakland Memorial Hospital, then it listed their names. As tensions build between them, bittersweet memories rise to the surface, leaving them suspicious, restless, and uncertain.With her scrapbook opened beside her on her canopied bed, Meredith Bancroft carefully cut out the picture from the Chicago Tribune. Now, as the Bancroft firm is threatened by a hostile takeover, Meredith is forced to confront Matt.
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A long way from the country club where, feeling like an outsider, he had dared to fall in love with a beautiful blonde named Meredith Bancroft, and known a once-in-a-lifetime passion and betrayal that sill haunted his memory… Now world leaders courted him, the media watched his every move, and he was ready to move in on the Bancroft empire.Ī cool, poised executive in her family’s legendary department store chain, Meredith had once defied her father for the sexually magnetic, intense Matt Farrell - and their brief, ill=fated marriage was the disastrous outcome. We’re the ones who can’t forget.”Ĭorporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana’s steel mills. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. “Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. I love the world she built for these two special people, the emotions she played with. But why am I so in love with this book? Simply because McNaught made characters with great chemistry and created dreamy scenarios for them. If you get easily annoyed because of that, again, you might not like this one. If you’re new to McNaught, please be warned that her main conflicts always revolves around miscommunication. Picky readers might find trouble with the dated references as well as the lengthy plot but I’m all for the delayed gratification. I love of all of Judith McNaught’s creations but this one definitely stands out.