If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo is a big-hearted novel about being seen for who you truly are.
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone.
When she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can't help but start to let him into her life. As they spend more time together, she realizes just how much she is losing by guarding her heart. She finds herself yearning to share with Grant everything about herself, including her past.
But Amanda is terrified that once she tells him the truth, he won't be able to see past it. Because the secret that Amanda has been keeping? It's that at her old school, she used to be Andrew. Will the truth cost Amanda her new life, and her new love?
This is a universal story about feeling different and a love story that everyone will root for.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse tells the intriguing story of Father Damien Modeste, a priest who has lovingly served the Ojibwe people on the remote reservation of Little No Horse for over half a century. As he nears the end of his life, Father Damien is tormented by the fear of having his true identity discovered: he is, in fact, a woman living as a man.
His peaceful existence is disrupted when a troubled colleague arrives to investigate the life of Sister Leopolda, a perplexing and possibly false saint. Father Damien alone knows the complex truth of Sister Leopolda's piety. He faces a heart-wrenching decision: should he reveal everything he knows and risk losing it all, or should he create a protective history, even though he suspects that Leopolda's miraculous acts may be driven by evil intentions?
This novel delves into themes of miracles, faith, and the struggles between good and evil, as well as the power of secrecy to both corrode and redeem.
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family; her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the family. Sudha is as beautiful, tenderhearted, and serious as Anju is plain, whip-smart, and defiant. Yet since the day they were born, Sudha and Anju have been bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend.
The cousins' bond is shattered, however, when Sudha learns a dark family secret. Urged into arranged marriages, their lives take sudden, opposite turns: Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household, while Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets.
Then tragedy strikes them both, and the women discover that, despite the distance that has grown between them, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of India and America, this is an exceptionally moving novel of love, friendship, and compelling courage.
Life changed for me in three days - the day my mother died, the day my dad married Candice, and the day I met Kennedy Jenner. From the moment I saw him, I was drawn to him. Like a moth to a flame, I couldn't keep away from the irresistible heat of the fire.
That knowing, confident smile... those beautiful pale blue eyes... and those dimples... simply delicious. Who could resist such a beautiful strong man?
Hope York transformed herself from a boring small-town girl into a flawless beauty on the outside. But inside, she never changed. Kennedy Jenner was a successful, wealthy, and jaw-dropping handsome man that could have whatever he wanted, on his own terms. And he wanted Hope. But would he still want her after he saw her for who she really was, instead of what she carefully planned for everyone to see? And will his own secret past stand in his way of getting what he really wants?