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Rand #1
The Mother of My Child
BLACK SHEEP'S BABY Spence Rand may have been a member of the premier family of Marshallton, Tennessee, but he'd also been a classic teenage rebel. Not only had he dared to become passionately entangled with the housekeeper's daughter - he'd gone and fallen in love with her. Though he knew fiery, outspoken Pattie Cornell was his soul mate, Spence had left town and never looked back. Never until now, when a shocking secret revealed the truth about the venerable Rand family, and about the woman Spence hadn't been able to forget. Bracing himself to confront the past, Spence returned to Marshallton. With him was the daughter Pattie Cornell had borne - and been told she had lost...
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1993
About the author
Beverly Barton
298 books711 followersBeverly Marie Inman was born on 23 December 1946 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. Daughter of Doris Marie and Walter D. Inman Jr. A born romantic, she fell in love with The Beauty and the Beast epic at an early age, when her grandfather bought her an illustrated copy of the famous fairy tale. Even before she learned to read and write, her vivid imagination created magical words and fabulous characters inside her mind. Movies fascinated her, and by the time she was seven she was rewriting the movies she saw on television and at the local theater to give them all happy endings. By the age of nine she'd penned her first novel. She wrote short stories, TV scripts, poetry, and novels throughout high school and into college.
After her marriage to Billy Ray Beaver, the "love of her life", and the births of her two children, Beverly continued to be a voracious reader and a devoted moviegoer, but she put her writing aspirations on hold until her children were teenagers. At every age of their lives, from infancy to adulthood, the children had been a true joy to her. She devoted herself to her husband and children and considered herself one of the many selfless "supermoms" who put their family's needs first. She believed she had had it all, just not all at the same time.
In her mid-30s, Beverly returned to her former passion — writing — as a hobby, but before 40, she decided that she wanted to make writing a full-time career. And when she rediscovered an old dream — of becoming a published writer — no one was more supportive of her aspirations than her family. Her children were her greatest cheerleaders and her husband was her biggest supporter. After writing over 40 books and receiving numerous awards and nominations, as well as having books on the USA Today list and consistently on the Waldenbooks bestseller list, her career was indeed a dream come true. Having a fantastic family and fabulous friends, as well as making a living doing the one thing she had loved doing since childhood, she considered herself truly blessed. Beverly died suddenly of heart failure on 21 April 2011.
After her marriage to Billy Ray Beaver, the "love of her life", and the births of her two children, Beverly continued to be a voracious reader and a devoted moviegoer, but she put her writing aspirations on hold until her children were teenagers. At every age of their lives, from infancy to adulthood, the children had been a true joy to her. She devoted herself to her husband and children and considered herself one of the many selfless "supermoms" who put their family's needs first. She believed she had had it all, just not all at the same time.
In her mid-30s, Beverly returned to her former passion — writing — as a hobby, but before 40, she decided that she wanted to make writing a full-time career. And when she rediscovered an old dream — of becoming a published writer — no one was more supportive of her aspirations than her family. Her children were her greatest cheerleaders and her husband was her biggest supporter. After writing over 40 books and receiving numerous awards and nominations, as well as having books on the USA Today list and consistently on the Waldenbooks bestseller list, her career was indeed a dream come true. Having a fantastic family and fabulous friends, as well as making a living doing the one thing she had loved doing since childhood, she considered herself truly blessed. Beverly died suddenly of heart failure on 21 April 2011.
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September 1, 2017
s. 11 přesalo bít
s. 13 připoměl
s. 27 nemohli [ona a Valerie]
s. 28 pondělí“ řekl
s. 32 Tak jí pomoc změnit se, pomoc jí
s. 35 Měla by si Spencerovi říct
rozumnět
s. 36 by jste
s. 45 jsem , že
s. 61 i bez mojich
s. 68 porvé spatřil
s. 71 „Pattie -“
s. 101 Úplně jsem Spencei zapomněla
s. 111 ale
-“
s. 143 sedněte si, Joan a nevyrušujte
s. 150 Toto jsou naše rodiče ?
uvozovky - s. 15, 34, 40, 50, 77, 97, 101 (2x), 105, 121, 138, 141, 151, 152(2x)
ji/jí - s. 38, 44
s. 13 připoměl
s. 27 nemohli [ona a Valerie]
s. 28 pondělí“ řekl
s. 32 Tak jí pomoc změnit se, pomoc jí
s. 35 Měla by si Spencerovi říct
rozumnět
s. 36 by jste
s. 45 jsem , že
s. 61 i bez mojich
s. 68 porvé spatřil
s. 71 „Pattie -“
s. 101 Úplně jsem Spencei zapomněla
s. 111 ale
-“
s. 143 sedněte si, Joan a nevyrušujte
s. 150 Toto jsou naše rodiče ?
uvozovky - s. 15, 34, 40, 50, 77, 97, 101 (2x), 105, 121, 138, 141, 151, 152(2x)
ji/jí - s. 38, 44
September 1, 2017
Korektura k pláči :-(
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