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............ "Will you agree to be my surrogate?" I dropped my fork, its clatter echoing in the quiet restaurant, and looked at him, my eyes widening in disbelief. Is he crazy? What gave him the idea that I would do that? The flickering candlelight on the table seemed to dance in sync with my racing thoughts. No... no... no, he's got to be kidding. I might be in trouble for sleeping on the job, but I couldn't agree to that. The thought of getting pregnant and giving up a part of me sent a shiver down my spine. I knew some people do it, but I don't think I could, especially with my parents always video calling me. Their prying eyes would probably notice that I'm not myself.

There is a new trillionaire, Sashaleigha Hightower, giving Maura a difficult time with funding sources that Maura needs to continue the Isles Foundation so the Regency Clinic can help low income patients. Jane, Katelyn and the others come up with a plan so the clinic can serve low income patients. The clinic can stay afloat with other patients but she started this clinic to help low income. She quit her job she loved as the Chief Forensics Medical Examiner for Sacramento County and other counties in California. She can always go back their even part time to work there. The governor has been asking her ever, since she resigned. Dr. Berman on handles Sacramento only. He doesn't have the experience to do all what she did. What will Dr. Maura Isles do? New marriages, a divorce, hurtful words stated and assaults occurred. Someone is inseminated and baby is born as a still born. Someone died of cancer and doesn't want any services but their ashes flushed down the toilet in the home they bought.

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At just 18, Jasmine Reel thought she had it all-love, a future, and now, a baby on the way. But her joy shatters when the doctor warns: keeping the pregnancy could cost her life. Before she can process the risk, she learns the unthinkable-Thanntos, the father of her child, has disappeared... without a word. As reality crashes down, Jasmine is left with a devastating question: Can she face motherhood alone-or survive it at all?

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"Anybody can be a mother, but it takes somebody special to be a mom..." They said everything happened for a reason, and seventeen-year-old Courtney Stern had a weak belief in that. She was normal, artistic, and happy; except for her family. Her father was a kind man, steady job, loved her unconditionally, but her mother was a different story. She was eccentric, bold, and possibly had a mild case of aspergers. She was nothing like her daughter, and Courtney was tired of this woman's behavior. Then one day, everything changed, She found documents, files, reports, everything that her parents ever told her was proven wrong because of a picture she was trying to find. Her mother is not her mother, and Courtney is thrown into the world of surrogate mothers. In order to get the truth, she chooses to travel from her home in Denver, Colorado, to Durango; and finds her birth mother...along with secrets behind it. http://www.lulu.com/shop/stephanie-moscone/like-mother-like-daughter/paperback/product-22059270.html

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