Bøger af Virginia Young

College textbook editor Breeda Flynn inherited an inactive bed and breakfast on Martha's Vineyard. She enjoys the solitude, her only company the cat who had belonged to her deceased aunt. Along with the house and feline, Breeda's world is filled with memories of events which happened sixteen years earlier, including the disappearance of her first love and the brutal death of his mother. When TV producer Joe Pederson asks to stay for a brief time at her home while researching and writing a book about those incidents, Bree is not happy about the intrusion. Reluctantly, she agrees to the stay.

Little did Samantha Elwyn know that upon visiting her grandparents for Thanksgiving in the heart of historic Plymouth, Massachusetts, she would meet the man of her dreams. The question is will she realize what she's found before she loses him forever?

At twenty-eight, Catherine has just learned about a younger half-sister. Determined to connect with this girl she didn't know existed, Catherine is drawn to a small cottage community in Rhode Island where her search begins. There she finds solace in the sea and in the man who she shares coffee with as they feed the gulls and wonder where these birds sleep at night. This question haunts Catherine as she also wonders where Trini sleeps and if she will ever find the sister she longs to know.

Starting over is never easy but sometimes necessary. Twenty-eight year old Lindsay knows that the time is right for her to change her surroundings, and when the offer comes from her parents' friend Meg to join her in Maine, it becomes the right opportunity. But on her first night there she is introduced to the arrogant and handsome Evan. Can she manage to keep her feelings for him in check while she learns who she really is on her own? And will Evan emerge from the fog of their relationship and prove himself a beacon of safety or the sharp rocks of deceit?

The community was founded on equality, but beautiful young Judith was frustrated with some of their rules. She learned to tolerate most of them, and she loved her home and family. But then one day she was faced with a decision no mother should ever have to make.

When Cole McGinnis turns five, he meets and falls in love with three day old Jerica - the girl next door. Two years later, her family moves, taking away the best birthday present Cole had ever received. Now, twenty-two years later, Cole walks into his mother's kitchen and finds a young woman standing at the sink. It is Jerica. She has returned to Mystic, returned to him. He is instantly drawn to her, and despite her involvement with another man, Cole falls in love. Will he have the confidence to let her know how he feels? And, if he does, will Jerica feel the same about him?

Spending the holidays in Vermont may seem like the perfect vacation for most people. For Autumn Sterling, a resident of bustling New York City, it's an adjustment. Not only is she confined to a wheelchair while she recovers from a recent accident, but she also has the challenge of becoming accustomed to life at rustic Silver Shadows - a ski lodge her father manages. More than adapting to her new surroundings, however, she finds herself resisting the temptation of falling in love with the resort's alluring owner.

This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying attention to the intersection of gender, identity, and race in each story