Gloria Pastorino Boeken

Sally's world is wonderful until one man brings it crashing down around her. He is trying to get everything, even her sanity.

De zevende zoon van een zevende zoon, Septimus Heap, wordt gestolen in de nacht van zijn geboorte. Diezelfde nacht vindt de vader van het kind, Silas Heap, een bundeltje in de sneeuw met daarin een pasgeboren meisje. De Heaps nemen het hulpeloze kind op in hun gezin, noemen haar Jenna en voeden haar op als een van hen. Maar wie is dit mysterieuze meisje, en wat is er werkelijk gebeurd met hun geliefde zoon Septimus?

A Fancy Affair Bridal Salon Forest Hills, Queens "Did you know that one of your hips is higher than the other?" the seamstress asked me in a totally conversational tone. The bridesmaid to my left eyed me in the mirror, then her gaze dropped to my hips. "I didn't," I said. "I never knew that. But I'm glad you told me." The seamstress had the decency to look embarrassed. She ducked her head back down and continued pinning. Perhaps that had been the reason why Blind Dates One, Two and Three hadn't been interested. it wasn't the smoking, after all. it was my Hip Issue. And just my luck that Blind Date Four was with a doctor, whose business it was to notice such deformaties. See Jane Date will speak to singles everywhere. At once warm and witty, this look into the life of twenty-eight-year-old assistant editor Jane Gregg, screams, "You are not alone!" Case in point: See Jane . . . --Endure two months of bridesmaid hell for her younger cousin's wedding --Brilliantly dodge being fixed up with Grammy's next door neighbor by fibbing that she, um, already has a boyfriend --Date . . . like crazy to find one suitable guy to bring to said wedding Okay, find one suitable guy to love . Was that so much to ask?