Mother's Day Collection 2023/Adding Up to Family/Second Chance for the Single Mum/Miracle Baby for the Midwife/Lone Star Baby

by Marie Ferrarella, Cathy Gillen Thacker, Tina Beckett

Adding Up to Family - Marie Ferrarella</p>

1 + 2 = Happily Ever After

When widowed rocket scientist Steve Holder needs a housekeeper who can also help with his precocious 10-year-old, they assign Becky Reynolds. The math whiz-turned-domestic-engineer, gently solves the equation of Steve’s daughter, but the moody widower requires more calculation. Love is definitely part of the solution! Becky just needs to find the right algorithm to solve the equation to Steve’s heart.

Second Chance for the Single Mum - Sophie Pembroke

She’s the one that got away. Now, could the future be theirs?

Gwen Phillips wears her smile like a mask. Focusing on her daughter and late husband’s foundation and burying her pain deep. Then maverick rugby legend Ryan Phillips walks back into her life, determined to shake off his failure to live up to his estranged brother’s golden reputation. He’s the one man who can bring back the joy Gwen’s been hiding from — if she’ll give him the chance…

Miracle Baby for the Midwife - Tina Beckett

A night like no other. A miracle she’s dreamed of!

Knowing she may never have children isn’t easy for midwife Carly Eliston, but devoting her life to helping other mothers realise that dream is fulfillment enough. Until she begins working alongside sexy neurosurgeon Adem Kepler! The cautious yet charismatic bachelor challenges Carly to let her hair down. One night of amazing passion later, Carly’s in for a miraculous shock — she’s carrying Adem’s baby!

Lone Star Baby - Cathy Gillen Thacker

Practice made perfect.

Suddenly finding herself a foster parent definitely shakes things up for Dr Violet McCabe. Especially because her attractive and pragmatic colleague, Dr Gavin Monroe, is baby Ava’s co-guardian. Gavin has doubts about the arrangement, but idealistic Violet is certain they can work together to find Ava the perfect adoptive family.

Gavin secretly crushed on Violet for years, but after losing her fiancé, Violet’s heart was impenetrable. Ava changes everything. For once, Violet is ready to embrace the unpredictable…maybe even love. But is Gavin the right man for Violet — and the right father for Ava? In their search for a perfect home for Ava, will Violet and Gavin miss that the best family for her is the one they’ve already created?

747 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2023

About the author

Marie Rydzynski-Ferrarella
aka Marie Charles, Marie Michael, Marie Nicole, Marie Ferrarella

Marie Rydzynski was born on March 28 in West Germany to Polish parents. She moved to America at the age of four. For an entire year, Marie and her family explored the eastern half of the country before finally settling in New York.

Marie swears she was born writing, "which must have made the delivery especially hard for my mother." From an early age, Marie's parents would find her watching television or tucked away in some private place, writing at a furious pace. "Initially, I began writing myself into my favourite shows. I was a detective on '77 Sunset Strip,' the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on 'Bonanza' and the 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.' before there was a 'Girl from U.N.C.L.E.,' not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories of 'The Mickey Mouse Club.'" Marie began to write her first romance novel when she was 11 years old, although she claims that, at the time, she didn't even realize it was a romance! She scribbled off and on, while dreaming of a career as an actress.

Marie was only 14 when she first laid eyes on the man she would marry, truly her first love, Charles Ferrarella. During her days at Queens College, New York, acting started to lose its glamour as Marie spent more and more time writing. After receiving her English degree, specialising in Shakespearean comedy, Marie and her family moved to Southern California, where she still resides today.

After an interminable seven weeks apart, Charles decided he couldn't live without her and came out to California to marry his childhood sweetheart. Ever practical, Marie was married in a wash-and-wear wedding dress that she sewed herself, appliqués and all. "'Be prepared' has always been my motto,"the author jokes. This motto has been stretched considerably by her two children, Nikky and Jessi, "but basically, it still applies," she says.

In November of 1981, she sold her first novel for Harlequin. Marie, who now has written over 150 novels, has one goal: to entertain, to make people laugh and feel good. "That's what makes me happy," she confesses. "That, and a really good romantic evening with my husband." She's keeping her fingers crossed that her reader's enjoy reading her books as much as she enjoyed writing them.