"You've met the partner of your dreams and have gotten your happily ever after, but now you've taken on a new role: stepmom. And you have no idea what you signed up for. Or maybe you've been a stepmom for a while now, but things are getting you down. Who do you turn to for help? Where is the stepmothering support group that'll give you the advice you need? Who actually gets how hard being a stepmom can be?" --

"New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe weaves a stunning portrait of a family immersed in deceit.and the women whose happiness depends on the secrets they keep. After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with...

Karen has a lot of trouble getting used to her new stepmother.

When Steven Armstrong tells his children he has fallen in love, he expects them to be happy that his life as a lonely, sixty-five year old widower is over. Instead, their father's intended thirty-three-year-old personal trainer Charlene Hendricks is exactly the kind of woman they fear. Through marriage, she becomes not only the stepmother to his three grown children, but their rival for their father's world class fortune. Suddenly an attack is made...

"In the third installment of Amy Clipston's beloved Amish Legacy series, Korey Bontrager and Savannah Zook pretend to date, only to find themselves unexpectedly falling in love"-- "In the third installment of Amy Clipston's beloved Amish Legacy series, Korey Bontrager and Savannah Zook pretend to date, only to find themselves unexpectedly falling in love. Korey, the middle Bontrager brother, has been spending time with cousins in Ohio and hasn't...

"You have an exciting, fulfilling job. You've fallen in love with the man of your dreams-- and met his three kids! Now what? Jacquelyn B. Fletcher shows how any professional woman turned wife and instant stepmother can build on the skills she employs at work-- organization, team-building, goal-setting, and planning-- to succeed at home in her new role as stepmom. Drawing on the latest research, her own experiences, and those of other real-life stepmothers,...

From the beginning when Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother, to the time in the city during the drought, and further adventures of life on the prairie. Includes an interview with the author.