Two Days After the Wedding

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Simon and Schuster, 2009 M07 10 - 320 páginas
Joan Medlicott's seventh novel in her bestselling series set in Covington, North Carolina, celebrating life, love, and the powerful bonds between the Ladies of Covington.

For Hannah, marriage has never meant happily ever after. Having fled an abusive husband when her daughters were young, she's never had reason to marry again...until now. Her business partner, Max, has proposed because he doesn't want her to be taxed on his estate. Hannah is initially reluctant to enter such an arrangement but logic dictates that she accept. Then, after the wedding, she finds herself spending more time over at Max's and is shocked to discover that she loves him -- wildly and passionately! A part of her wants the marriage to become real, but she's scared of losing herself again -- and more scared, still, that Max doesn't feel the same.

Right when she desperately needs the counsel of her two closest friends, Grace is wrapped up with her partner, Bob, and Amelia is away in New York, being tempted by the glamorous life. Will Hannah find the courage to pursue a real marriage? And what will happen to her relationships with Grace and Amelia if she does?

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Página 69 - HOW DO I LOVE THEE? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
Página 69 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise ; I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life ! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Página 68 - Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Página 146 - ... parents realized I was turning out more like Rocky than Grace Kelly, they finally heeded the call of suburbia and moved to New Jersey. I still live there. Unfortunately for my hips, though, I've never lost my penchant for Philly soft pretzels and hoagies, in spite of growing up in the "Garden State.
Página 28 - ... prevented more frauds, or whether it would be for the public weal or woe to adopt or repeal the rule of Price v. Neal, as to the recovery of money paid by a drawee on a forged order, one may confess to some skepticism as to the effectiveness of any known type of research. Please do not misunderstand me. The last thing in the world I want to do is to belittle the need for intelligent study as to the effective functioning of the law. We have talked a lot about the need of such studies and very...
Página 95 - Fragments 9Ia? [9Ib]: (a) [For, according to Heraclitus, it is not possible to step twice into the same river, nor is it possible to touch a mortal substance twice in so far as its state (hexis) is concerned. But, thanks to (the) swiftness and speed of change] (b) it scatters (things?) and brings (them?) together again, [(or, rather, it brings together and lets go neither "again...
Página 67 - Made safe by his presence, so close that she could feel his breath on her neck, she took another step, and then another, and to her relief she reached the other side and stepped onto solid ground. "I don't like that feeling of having nothing under me,
Página 90 - Amelia stared at the pictures, then covered her face with her hands and shook her head. "I can't do this book.
Página 177 - I'm frightened that our marriage is falling apart, and I don't know what to do about it. I'm so sorry. Is it too late for us, Russell?

Acerca del autor (2009)

Joan Medlicott was born and raised on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She lives with her husband in the mountains of North Carolina. She is the author of the Ladies of Covington series as well as several standalone novels. Visit her website at JoanMedlicott.com.

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