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#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods reunites a mother and daughter and demonstrates that real love knows no limits
Callie Smith’s quest for success far from her Iowa roots has caused a rift with her hardworking family. And with neither her Wall Street career nor her marriage going as planned, she starts to question the choices she’s made.
But when charismatic network president Jason Kane pursues her to save a failing soap opera, her life is soon full of more twists than a TV story line. Suddenly she gets to know a whole new side to her mother, and also has the opportunity to save a friend’s life. Most unexpected of all, she leaves heartache behind and tunes in to the love of a lifetime.
Praise for #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author
“Sherryl Woods returns with her usual wit and style in this latest tale of romance and suspense. Don’t miss out on the newest winner by Ms. Woods.”
—RT Book Reviews
“Woods is a master heartstring puller.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Sherryl Woods writes emotionally satisfying novels about family, friendship and home. Truly feel-great reads!”
—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
“Woods really knows what readers have come to expect from her stories, and she always gives them what they want.”
—RT Book Reviews
“Love, marriage, family, and forgiveness all play an important part in Woods’s latest richly nourishing, holiday-spiced novel.”
—Chicago Tribune on A Chesapeake Shores Christmas
“Warm, complex, and satisfying.”
—Library Journal on Harbor Lights
Temptation
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
Sherryl Woods
Dear Friends,
For a very long time I reported on the television industry, and from that day to this I’ve been a self-confessed soap opera fan. Temptation was written with much love and respect for a genre of programming that networks have treated very shabbily in recent years.
More than that, though, it’s a story of a woman coming to grips with the many unexpected changes in her life, building a new relationship with her estranged family and forging even stronger bonds with the people she loves.
I hope you’ll enjoy this chance to catch up with a book that means a lot to me, and that Callie’s story will make you laugh, shed a tear or two and sigh with satisfaction as she makes her way into an even brighter future.
All best,
Sherryl
Contents
Jason Kane had finally seen a woman he wanted and no one in the whole incompetent world of television seemed to know who she was.
Okay, that was a slight exaggeration, he admitted as he replayed the brief scene. Surely some of those idiots on the set of Within Our Reach, his network’s failing soap, knew her. She’d just sashayed across the screen in today’s episode, wearing a formfitting uniform and displaying more shapely leg than any cop he’d ever seen on the streets of New York.
Unfortunately, they hadn’t deigned to give her a credit. He’d run through the crawl listing the actors a half dozen times to no avail. He’d checked with the casting people, who seemed to have a vague recollection of the walk-on part but not the actress who’d gotten it. He’d had his secretary