Finding Our Forever
New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes readers to the town of Silver Springs, where surprises wait around every corner!The search for her birth mother brought Cora Kelly to the New Horizons Boys Ranch. Getting a job there was easy enough, but confiding in Aiyana, the ranch’s owner, that she's really her daughter? Cora's not sure she can do that, not unless she's confident the news will be welcomed. And once she gets to know Elijah Turner—Aiyana's adopted son and ranch manager—that decision becomes even more difficult.Although Elijah can’t deny his deep attraction to Cora, he's always struggled with trust. Anyone with his past would, and there's something about the ranch’s newest employee that isn't exactly as it seems. But if the feelings she awakes in his guarded heart are any indication, she might be just what he’s long been waiting for.
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New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak welcomes readers to the town of Silver Springs, where surprises wait around every corner!
The search for her birth mother brought Cora Kelly to the New Horizons Boys Ranch. Getting a job there was easy enough, but confiding in Aiyana, the ranchâs owner, that sheâs really her daughter? Coraâs not sure she can do that, not unless sheâs confident the news will be welcomed. And once she gets to know Elijah TurnerâAiyanaâs adopted son and ranch managerâthat decision becomes even more difficult.
Although Elijah canât deny his deep attraction to Cora, heâs always struggled with trust. Anyone with his past would, and thereâs something about the ranchâs newest employee that isnât exactly as it seems. But if the feelings she awakes in his guarded heart are any indication, she might be just what heâs long been waiting for.
âSo Iâd only get hurt if I got involved with you,â Cora said.
âYes. Youâd essentially be getting a locked box.â
He was being transparent, completely up-front. She was the one whoâd set that tone. So it surprised him when she barked out a laugh. âYou think youâre doing me a favor by staying away!â
He was trying to adhere to the decisions heâd made after that last ugly blowout with Tina. Heâd been glad for the peace and balance heâd found since theyâd broken up a year ago. But twelve months was a long time to go without a woman... âEssentially.â
âWell, youâre taking a lot for granted, Mr. Turner. First of all, how do you know Iâm going to want you to love me?â
âExperience,â he said wryly. âI have yet to encounter the opposite problem.â
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Silver Springs: Where love changes everything!
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author BRENDA NOVAK is the author of more than fifty books. A five-time RITA® Award nominee, she has won many awards, including the National Readersâ Choice Award, the Booksellersâ Best Award and the Silver Bullet Award. She also runs Brenda Novak for the Cure, a charity to raise money for diabetes research (her youngest son has this disease). To date, sheâs raised $2.5 million. For more about Brenda, please visit www.brendanovak.com.
To all lost/hurt boys.
May you find an Aiyana Turner in your life.
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Cora Kelly had never met her birth mother.
The records had been sealed when she was adopted as a newborn twenty-eight years ago. Her adoptive mother didnât even know her birth motherâs name, so it wasnât as if Lilly Kelly had ever mentioned it. Cora had had very little to go on. Even with two different attorneys, a website designed to help families reconnect and a private investigator whoâd taken her case for free since he was an adoptee himself and did what he could, in his spare time, to help others whoâd been through the same thing, itâd taken six long years to glean the information she craved. But here she was, only moments away from coming face-to-face, for the first time since the day she was born, with the woman whoâd brought her into this world.
Would she like her mother? Would they resemble each other more in person than in the one picture sheâd seen? Would Aiyana Turner somehow recognize her for who she was?
Those questions churned in Coraâs mind, making her stomach churn, as well. But one question weighed heavier than the others: Was she making a mistake?
Wiping her palms on her slacks, she told herself to calm down. As far as Aiyana knew, they were only meeting to talk about Coraâs new job working as an art instructor at New Horizons Boys Ranch, a boarding school for troubled teens, ages fourteen to eighteen, ninety minutes outside LA. No way would Aiyana have any reason to suspect Coraâs true identity. And Cora didnât plan to tell her who she was. Not today. Maybe not ever. That was why sheâd sought this jobâand accepted it. So sheâd have the chance to see what she might be getting into before making that decision.
Hopefully, her mother would be someone she could admire, at least. From what she could tell, Aiyana had done a lot to help teenage boys who acted out, some whoâd been orphaned as well as many who hadnât. Her work as executive administrator of the school sheâd founded twenty years ago seemed to be her one true love. Sheâd never been married, and sheâd never had any more of her own children. According to a newspaper article honoring Aiyana on the anniversary of the date the boys ranch opened, something the private detective who finally solved the mystery of Aiyanaâs identity had provided, Aiyana had adopted quite a few of the residents whoâd come to the school through the yearsâeight of them, so far. The oldest, Elijah Turner, was now a man in his early thirties. He helped run New Horizons. Cora knew because he was the person whoâd interviewed and then hired her. That was why she hadnât yet met Aiyana. Aiyana had been out of town when Cora came two weeks ago.
