A One-of-a-Kind Family (Harlequin Super Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Holly Jacobs (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Super Romance | Publication Date: February 9, 2010

Anna Chapel believes in people. She believes in helping them lead exceptional lives. Now the dedicated life coach wants to do that for different yet special Colm Franklin. If Colm's breath-stopping, overprotective brother, Liam, will let her.

But the guilt-ridden computer programmer refuses to believe, to dream. Or could it be Liam simply needs to learn how? Anna's biggest challenge may be ahead: can one woman with a head full of wayward curls and a smile a mile long convince Liam that they have a fighting chance? That, together, they can overcome anything to create a family that's truly one of a kind?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (February 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 037371615X
• ISBN-13: 978-0373716159
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,135,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Holly Jacobs leads a life full of romance and adventure. From skydiving to jet-setting around Europe, from snorkeling in coral reefs to writing while wearing beautiful silk peignoir sets and popping chocolate bonbons, Holly Jacobs leads a life that is the epitome of romance.

Well, my fictional life sounds more interesting, but not better than my real life. Really, I'm the happily married mother of four. I write for Harlequin and Avalon Books.

You can visit me at www.HollyJacobs.com, at Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Holly-Jacobs-Author-Official/197779663574406 or view my video on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BONgMrAPHfA

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very special love story!, May 29, 2010

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Misha C. (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A One-of-a-Kind Family (Harlequin Super Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

A lovely story about the specialness in all of us, and about how we shouldn't let anything, not even guilt or fear, stand in the way of working to reach our dreams. Especially when those dreams include falling in love!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lovely Reading Experience, May 15, 2010

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Lorna Collins "Author, Speaker, Technical Writer" (Dana Point, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A One-of-a-Kind Family (Harlequin Super Romance) (Kindle Edition)

Holly Jacobs is a funny writer!
In this book, her protagonist, Anna, is an idealistic, tender soul who will fight for those she works with. Her job is to teach living skills to adults who are mentally challenged. But for her, they aren't just clients. She cares deeply about helping them to be all they can be, despite loving guardians who sometimes try to baby and protect those who need to find their wings.
Enter one such brother, Liam, and the differing views of what love really means clash.
The story is well told. The 'different but special' brother, Colm, is charming and his voice is very much like a couple of real people I've known and loved.
The prickly and over-protective brother is a challenge, but not one Anna is willing to give up her sense of purpose for.
Well written, well plotted and a joy to read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific timely contemporary romance, February 12, 2010

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A One-of-a-Kind Family (Harlequin Super Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Life-skills coach Anna Chapel is excited that the Sunrise Foundation has a home in Whedon, Pennsylvania. The not for profit group's motto is "Helping Exceptional People Lead Exceptional Lives".

Her newest client is developmentally-disabled Colm Franklin. His caretaker twin brother Liam assumes that Sunrise Foundation will provide his sibling with an adult sitter as he has some business to attend to. Anna believes Colm can do so much more, but Liam fears his brother will only be hurt by her encouragement; all he wants for his sibling is for Colm to have "normalcy" since their parents died two years ago. As Anna pledges to enable Colm to become all he can be starting with pouring his own drink into a glass as he has always been coddled, she also falls in love with his skeptical computer programmer brother.

This is a terrific timely contemporary romance that looks deeply at the needs of special adults although Liam's working out of his home is too convenient as caretakers don't always have that option. Colm and his two new friends, Gilly and Josh, make the tale as they teach Anna, Liam, octogenarian Mrs. Albright and the reader that they may take longer but are capable of not "shmoosing" the eggs when they pack bags at Mr. Keller's grocery store.

Harriet Klausner