Captive Innocence (35 page)

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FERN MICHAELS is the
USA Today
and
New York Times
bestselling author of the Sisterhood
and Godmother series and dozens of other novels
and novellas.There are over seventy five million
copies of her books in print.
Fern Michaels has built and funded several large
day-care centers in her hometown, and is a passionate
animal lover who has outfitted police dogs across
the country with special bulletproof vests. She shares
her home in South Carolina with her four dogs
and a resident ghost named Mary Margaret.

 

Visit her website at fernmichaels.com.

With a popular comic strip, card line, and children's
cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighton should be in
a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood
lingers on. Even though she still lives in the
New Jersey house where she grew up,
Lucy has had little contact with her parents
since they moved to Florida five years ago.

 

Finding Joy In The Present

 

Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been
killed in a car crash. While settling their affairs
in Florida, Lucy begins to realize how little she really
knew aobut their lives. She has no way to explain
the nysterious safe in their bedroom, with its cache of
fake passports, cash, and weapons. What secrets were
the Brightons keeping? Were they even who they
claimed to be? The answers will shatter everything she
once believed about her parents—and about herself.

From the beloved #1 bestselling sensation
Fern Michaels, a haunting portrait of love and war—
and the passionate woman swept into an epic journey
of desire, heartbreak, and destiny.

 

 

Casey Adams, a dedicated nurse, loses her heart
overseas to idealistic officer Mac Carlin, heir to an
immense fortune. Then tragedy strikes. Believing that
Casey has died in an explosion, Mac returns to
San Francisco grief-stricken, to a life he never wanted.
But Casey is still alive, keeping Mac in the dark after
learning that he kept from her a shattering secret.
Once home, Casey finds healing in the hands and
heart of a brilliant plastic surgeon and forges ahead
under a new name and with a new career. But fate
charts a collision course for her and Mac, now a U.S.
senator who doesn't recognize the compelling
TV producer getting under his skin. For Casey,
this full-circle journey cannot be denied, no matter what.
For only by reclaiming the woman she was and the life
she lost can she embrace the magic of unexpected love.

An unforgettable novel from the national bestselling
sensation Fern Michaels, about a young woman's
journey into the heart of the unknown. . .

 

 

Callie James learned to survive in the squalid
back alleys of Dublin. Tough, spirited, and possessed
of a singular beauty, she was sent to New York to find
her fortune. But everywhere she turned there were men
who saw only what they wanted to see in her.
Byrch Kenyon offered friendship and encouragement,
but he also saw the desirable woman she would
one day become. Rossiter Powers, the rich son of
a respected family, saw something else in Callie
—and nearly destroyed her. Hugh MacDuff, rich only
in love and compassion, did his best to save her.
But Callie—strong, smart and determined to
succeed—insisted on taking charge of her own destiny.

Captive Innocence
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

 

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First Kensington Electronic Edition: May 2014

ISBN: 978-1-6018-3081-4