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From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale.A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy…Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey’s child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter.It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say ‘Yes, Mama’ and to give the child the love she so desperately needed. In a hypocritical society full of thin-lipped disapproval, Alicia would learn that the human spirit can soar over adversity and that, though blood may be thicker than water, love is the most powerful relationship of all…

Until recently, brilliant surgeon Jeremy Foster has been a carefree bachelor. Then he meets his new intern! Dr. Alice Masters – six months pregnant – brings out protective instincts in him he hadn't known he possessed.Jeremy is worried that Alice is working too hard. And he hates the thought of her bringing up her baby alone. But there isn't much this former playboy can do once Alice stops working for him – unless he swaps the role of boss for that of husband!