Bøger af Jan Carol

Carolyn is engaged to her boss, a nice looking insurance agent. She isn't sure she can be happy with him. The man is boring, which is a discovery she made when they not only work together almost every day, but have lunch most days, and he goes to her apartment in the evenings to watch old movies while sitting beside her on the couch. Derek wants to take her on a trip to a ski lodge in Colorado for a Christmas week get-away, to get to know each other. No, he doesn't ski, but he'd love watching her go down the slopes. This isn't appealing to Carolyn. If you're that set against going to Colorado with me, why not take a week off by yourself. Go see your parents, and take time to think about us. The suggestion came as a surprise. But it is one of the better suggestions she's heard from him. The weather doesn't look good for the week she is planning her trip. Carolyn hopes she can get to her parents home before the ice storm hits. Because a car is on her side of the road, she has an accident, and is stuck in Carbon. The older man who helps her, takes her home like a stray kitten, where she meets the man's son. There is an attraction between the two young adults. Mr. Kingston isn't happy with walking into the room where they are embraced. I want to talk to you, Daniel. And as for you, young lady... Just because you take that ring off your finger... Please, Mr. Kingston... Caroline didn't know what to say to him. With tears coming up and threatening to spill over, she ran out of the room. But this doesn't stop Dan from catching her up in a kiss every chance he gets. After the incident under the mistletoe, he just can't stay away from her. The roller coaster ride Dan causes with Carolyn's emotions, cause her to run from his home, regardless of the icy condition of the roads.

Carrie has just broken up with her possessive boyfriend. She's ready to celebrate with a few of her co-workers. Parking in a garage, she gets out of her car to find two men grabbing and pushing her into the back of a limousine. All the door handles and window buttons have been removed from the back doors. There is no way for her to escape. Traveling all night, Carrie finds herself in a very large house. Mr. Langford, a wealthy man, is brought into the room where she is sitting with one of the driver's watching her. "Cynthia." He greets her. In his tone she hears that he has missed her. "My name is Carrie, Mr. Langford." But she cannot convince anyone that she is not Mrs. Cynthia Langford, the older man's wife. After several days, Carrie is resigned to being captive. There is always one of Mr.Langford's goons watching her, making sure she cannot leave him again. Lounging around the pool one day, a younger version of her proposed husband came in and confronted her. He believes this is Cynthia, and he has a hatred for the woman. Carrie explains how she came to be there, and who she is. Clint begins to see that it is only a physical resemblance. It's uncanny, and he has to keep reminding himself that this isn't his step-mother. Helping her get away from the mansion one night, Clint takes her home. She finds she's lost her job, but what bothers her most is worry that the Langford goons will come back and take her again. Her worries become reality, but she dodges their attempts. She doesn't want to go back to the luxury she had found for that week and a half. Though Mr. Langford was kind, and she could have had everything she wanted, she was comfortable with her life in Akron. But Mr. Langford wants his wife back, at any cost.

Tonnie Sue is the Waltco Department Store's Personnel Manager. Engaged to be married in two months, she finds an obstacle -- named Bo Wentworth. Having hired all the Santas needed for the four stores, Bo comes in wanting the position in the main store. He's too tall, too young, too thin, not at all jolly. Being told that all the positions are filled, and if they weren't he wouldn't be considered for the position, he isn't going to give up. Tonnie Sue is unnerved every time Bo enters her office. His smile, his brown eyes, his voice, just about everything about him seems to irritate her. Her fiance walks into her office to take her to lunch, and there is Bo, behind the desk, rubbing Tonnie Sue's shoulders and neck. Tonnie Sue tries to explain that this man was just in for an interview, when one of her headaches hits, and he offered to help relieve the pain. Tune in to see what is going to happen when Roger sees Tonnie Sue getting out of Bo's limo, right into Bo's arms, and she isn't fighting him when he kisses her!

With three young children, Rachel, a young divorced mother, only wants to provide for them. But the new hospital administrator, hired to make sure the hospital can survive for the community, begins cutting the employees he feels they can do without. Last one hired is the first to go, and that meant Rachel's job in the kitchen. With regret that he has to let her go, Jake Hammond tries everything to help her get a job in a town with little to offer. Just when Rachel begins to trust another man in her life, her ex-husband comes back to begin where they left off. And even worse, if it could get any worse, Jake's wife finds her lost husband. What will Rachel do now?

Selina has left her father's home, determined to show him she can make it on her own. She is afraid he is trying to set her up to marry someone of his choice. That isn't what Selina wants. His choices in men are totally wrong for her. Going to Los Angeles where no one knows where she is, Selina get a job on a small yacht as one of the crew. Unable to settle down in her shared room - visions of her family keep her tossing and turning - she goes up on deck, in the fresh air. With the breeze blowing, she holds her hair down to keep it out of her face, allowing her skirt to be whipped around her legs. No one is up to see, or she thinks. A deep voice comes from behind her. If she would tuck her hair down into her blouse, she could hold her skirt down. She turns, but can't look up into the man's face. Because she was hired through the employment office, whisked on board, kept busy throughout the first day, she doesn't know that this man is the owner of the yacht, her boss. Derek Sterling. Because neither of them can sleep, he suggests dancing in the dining room to soft music. She makes it feel as if he's floating. Ideas start forming in his thoughts. What can he do to get her to become one of his guests on this 2 week cruise, rather than his employee?