Bøker av Patricia Ploss

Millie Parker found herself taking over her father's veterinary clinic when her dad retired, and he and wife Carolyn moved to Florida. Millie's life was on track, a profession she loved, established clientele, a great staff to work with, and old friends to reconnect with! As she settled into her childhood home, pursuing her lifelong dream to follow in her father's footsteps, Millie expected to be happy! Instead, she finds herself falling all over again for a high school crush! Now a widower with a young son, Al Alcoba seems further out of reach than in high school! Running into Al and his son, Millie questions whether her life is really full! Would there be room in Al's life for another woman, since his wife had died? Would his ten-year-old son ever accept his dad having a new relationship? Personal loss and the goal of helping others leads Millie down roads she never thought she'd travel.

Emery Kincaid, independent realtor and recent widow, examines her life, determined to succeed and move forward, finds herself in an odd love triangle! A dear family friend for years, Mark Stanton, is a long-time architect. His feelings for Emery have evolved from friendship to something more. As he slowly courts her, plans to change his own career develop, as his heart opens to new love. Bart Moorhouse, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, has followed dark desires his whole life. Killing is not against his rules. When Emery pops up on his radar, he finds himself obsessed with her. The more Emery refuses to engage and indulge him, the more Bart is determined to have and control her. Emery's determination to live might not be enough to save her from Bart's dark and violent will. Will Mark get there in time to stop Bart from his evil mission?

Have you ever believed your son was fine? Did you raise him to know right from wrong? Drugs are bad, stealing isn't right? College is good and telling the truth is always better than lying? Being a parent is tough! We are all told this from the start. It turns out that you can't really make your kids or anyone else for that matter, do anything they don't want to do. You try your best and hoe they listen, but sometimes they don't. This book is for any parent who feels as if they failed their child. You didn't. your children have their own journeys to follow, their own mistakes to make. God has the plan, and we just need to believe. This young man's journey down a dark path of drugs, lies, failure, and nearly losing his life in a horrific car accident brought his family to despair. His struggle to come back from a coma, a three-month hospital stay and having to learn basic skills all over, led his family to believe all the bad choices were over. But they weren't Follow Dawson's journey to sobriety, acceptance, and the hope of a better life in this true account of his life.

1961 brought the promise of a family to couple Tom and Dot Cornell. Until one day, several days past her due date, Dot nearly collapsed to the floor in excruciating pain.Knowing something was horrifically wrong, Dorothy made her way to the couch and laid down. She hadn't felt her baby move in days. Everyone said that was normal, but she knew in her heart it was not!Arriving home from work, her husband Tom found her out on the couch. She awakened to find herself in a pool of blood and they rushed to the hospital.Was their baby dead? What had happened? Were they never meant to be parents? Emergency surgery would change their lives and their destiny to be parents.Another's child might be their only way to become a mom and dad in the early 1960s

In 1962, seventeen-year-old Judy Bonner finds herself in love with twenty-year-old Curtis Murphy. She also learns that she is pregnant with his baby and due in June 1963!Filled with fear, shame, and secrecy, Judy hides her pregnancy from her family for as long as she can! With no mother to turn to and only an angry, widowed father and an overbearing sister, Judy makes choices and decisions that only adults should have to make. Follow her story of love, trauma and letting go, in the early 1960s, where choices were few for girls who, "got in trouble!""Letting Go is close to home for me. As someone who was adopted as an infant in 1963, I know nearly nothing about my birth mother and her journey. Although I've searched for years, I've never been able to find her. This book is what I'd like to imagine her story was. My real parents are the ones who raised me. They've both been gone for many years now, but they will always and forever be my parents."