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    Unexpected Gifts

    By Holly Jacobs

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    Teacher Eli Cartwright has it all figured out; the career, the reliable boyfriend and the next few dependable decades. Yet life has quite a sense of humour, it seems, since her perfectly ordered existence has been completely upended because Eli is counselling pregnant teens; but now with an unplanned pregnancy of her own!

    Suddenly Eli is single, terrified...and exuberant. And her colleague, Zac Keller, has never been more attracted to her. But can he convince Eli that life sometimes offers more than one unexpected gift at a time?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781460827062
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    Holly Jacobs

    Award-winning author Holly Jacobs has sold more than two million books worldwide. Her works have received many accolades, including the Holt Medallion, the Golden Quill, the National Readers’ Choice Award, and more. Booklist named the first novel in her Everything But series, Everything But a Groom, one of its Top 10 Romance Fiction books of 2008. She has delivered more than sixty author workshops and keynote speeches across the country. She has a wide range of interests, including writing, gardening, and basket weaving. Along with her family and her dogs, she resides in Erie, Pennsylvania, which serves as the setting for many of her stories.

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      In the past two years, I've read at least seven of Holly Jacobs' romances. Unexpected Gifts, the twenty-eighth she's written for Harlequin Books, is filled with the same type of likable, loving characters that drew me to her earlier books. Fifteen years ago, Elinore (Eli) Cartwright, a teacher in the George County School District in Pennsylvania, saw the need for a teen parenting programming in the largely rural county. In all those years working with single mothers, she never thought she'd be in the same boat. But, at forty-four, she found herself pregnant, with an older, stuffy boyfriend, who never wanted to be a father, and had no interest in a baby. Her break-up with Arthur, along with her intent to help one of her students, put her together with Zac Keller.Zac, the manager of his family's chain of grocery stores, had been interested in Eli, but he wouldn't poach as long as she was dating Arthur. As one of six adopted children, he came from a close, loving family, and that's what he hoped to have someday. Although Eli just wanted to be friends, Zac hoped he could eventually persuade her he was interested in her, and her baby. Eli sees more problems than Zac, because she's offering Arthur every chance to have a relationship with his child. And, she knows she's ten years older than Zac. Zac only hopes she'll see he loves her.Eli's students, her friends and family, and Zac's family, all hope for the best for them. And, those characters add to the warmth and charm of this book. From the very beginning, it's obvious that the relationship will work out for Zac and Eli. And, it's that big, loving family, of adopted brothers and sisters, that offer glimpses of hope. Unexpected Gifts is the story of two people falling in love, despite problems. Zac sums the book up beautifully. "Life happens. What truly defines us as people is how we handle what life throws at us." And, when Holly Jacobs writes more romances, I'll treat them as Unexpected Gifts.