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Back to Books The Memory of You aka Something Worth Remembering
Declared dead by the army when he was taken prisoner six years ago, Lieutenant Matthew Foster is finally rescued and returns home as MAC. Due to posttraumatic stress, he has no memory of the bad-boy Romeo he was before his capture. Broken facial bones, extensive dental work, and the beard he’s kept to conceal his gauntness have left him looking nothing like the handsome young man in the induction picture the doctors pull from his military file after they identify him Spunky single mother, Abby Foster, is a soft touch for hard-luck cases. She’s had trouble accepting her husband Matt’s death, and complications while having their son have left her unable to have more children and feeling like only half a woman. She’s marrying the well-to-do dentist she’s been dating because she’s lonely, and he accepts her inability to give him a family. When the Army informs Matt that he has a wife, he figures she’s had to have made a new life for herself. He plans to simply write a note and wish her well. But first, he can’t resist going to catch a glimpse of the woman he’d loved enough to marry. Six years of fear become reality when he learns she’s engaged--and he’s a daddy. He’s relieved his wife doesn’t recognize him and continues posing as MAC, a down-and-out vet. He convinces Abby to hire him to paint her house, hoping to discover if she can love the broken man who’s come home before he tells her he’s her husband. He doesn’t want her staying with him out of pity or obligation. Unfortunately, this wounded hero has only weeks, before the wedding bells chime, to convince Abby she wants him, a mental-case who has zip to offer his family, instead of her wealthy fiancé. Abby doesn’t believe she’ll ever love any man the way she had Matt...until she meets Mac. She shrugs off, as coincidence, similarities between him and her husband and struggles with her growing feelings for Mac. After all, he’d have a tough time passing a psych exam to adopt, so Mac would never want her--not with his dreams of the big family she’s unable to give him.
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A Little Bit of Déjà Vu The Most Precious Gift The Right Match
Copyright 2008 Laurie Kellogg
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