Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Pages -  388 Publisher -  Christina Dodd Published -  March 19, 2014 Original -  2003 Sold by -   Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Contemporary, Mystery & Suspense, Family Saga Series -  Lost Hearts 1 of 3 Language -  2/5 Sexual Content -  5/5 (smut) Hope Prescott lives in Boston, far from the warm, southern home she recalls. She works with one goal in mind--finding her long-lost siblings. Yet her job at the answering service and her own loving nature creates a family of friends, people she knows only by their voices. She especially likes Griswald, gruff old butler for wealthy Zack Givens. Meeting Griswald is a shock; he is neither gruff nor old, but a powerful, handsome man. In fact, he is Zack Givens, mysterious, cold, heartless--and charmed by the artless young woman who brings him chicken soup, treats him like a friend...and falls in love with the humble man she imagines him to be. Inevitably she will di...

A lot to cover today. WORK My extended Sub assignment ended on Tuesday, so after five weeks teaching First Grade, I took the last three days off 😜 Wasn't able to sleep IN any of those days, but I did make a few attempts to stay up later than normal, which just worked to make me very sleepy during the day. It was a fun assignment, the kids were adorable (for the most part), and it is the first elementary school in this district where I can honestly say I'd love to go back again some day! Not to go into a long dissertation on Public Schools and Everything that is Wrong with Them, but I know for a fact that the reason I enjoyed the work so much was because of the Principal, the staff, and the simple fact that everyone who works there is on board with the rules and guidelines set forth by the administrators. Instead of showing me to the classroom and then walking away, leaving me to feel alone, desperate, and tossed overboard without a life line, this school worke...