For My Daughter

by Margot Early, Janice Kay Johnson, Jan Freed

There is no closer relationship than between a mother and a daughter - even if they don't always get along! In this Mother's Day anthology from Harlequin, three women find their mothers to be often incorrigible, always full of good intentions and, in a few special cases, able to find the perfect man for them in Soul Kitchen by Margot Early, The Mirror Adds Ten Pounds by Jan Freed, and Mother Knows Best by Janice Kay Johnson.

Soul Kitchen by Margot Early
Oh, the embarrassment of being thirty-one years old and having a mother who's still stuck in the sixties! Dany Wilde wants to escape everything Jenny represents. But Gabe Lucero, Dany's childhood friend, has always seen her eccentric mother as a true original, a woman of warmth and strength. With his encouragement, Dany finally sees it, too. And she begins to see Gabe himself in a different light - not as a friend but as a lover...

The Mirror Adds Ten Pounds by Jan Freed
Lindsey Howard is marrying Adam Sullivan in less than a month - and all she seems to do is fight her family in fitting rooms. Wedding preparations bring out the worst in everyone; Lindsey's thirteen-year-old daughter is doing her best to ruin the wedding, while her mother's trying to organize it by the book (every book ever written on the subject). Lindsey even ends up fighting with Adam. In a fitting room...where else?

Mother Knows Best by Janice Kay Johnson
Mother: The Next Generation. That's the one thing Rosalind Kirk wants to avoid - turning into her mother. So when Margaret Kirk presumes to 'choose' a husband for her daughter, Rosalind has to reject him...even if Craig Morrow is exactly the man she's been looking for!

375 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

Master storyteller Margot Early has known from a very young age that she was born into her vocation. Storytelling has been part of her life since she was a child—whether plotting Nancy Drew cases in the basement of Palo Alto, California’s historic Squire House, pretending to live in trees (while climbing them) or tapping the keys of an ancient manual typewriter, writing stories to share with friends.

One of her most vivid and joyful childhood memories is when she realized she could read and interrupted a bridge party to display her knowledge. A writer from the age of nine or ten, she has always had an audience—her friends, sisters and parents listening to what she wrote.

A friend and fellow journalist once told her that she was a circle—perfect. The very full circle of Margot Early’s life has included some tough times, which she knows have made her a better and more insightful writer.

Early, who owns neither a car nor a television, believes her greatest wealth is her friends—and she’s glad to count many relatives among them. Living in a town of four hundred, high in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, she enjoys the outdoors, dancing, spinning dog hair and spending time with her pets, which include German shepherds, snakes and tarantulas.