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Turning his life around, Luke Wynter had worked hard to become a doctor, to give back to the community he'd taken from years ago.And he had been doing just fine…until Leilani Stephens snuck back into his life. Twelve years ago she had made it clear that she no longer considered him a friend, let alone a lover. And he'd never been one to plead or beg.Now he felt drawn to her all over again–yet felt that something was unsettled, unfinished. Unsaid. What had Leilani been hiding from him all these years?

Джин Уэбстер (Элис Джейн Чендлер) – американская писательница, внучатая племянница Марка Твена. Она прожила всего сорок лет, умерла во время родов. Ее повести в письмах принесли ей мировую славу. Поставленный на Бродвее по мотивам этих произведений спектакль, созданные в разные годы киноверсии имели шумный успех. В первой экранизации роль героини сыграла знаменитая актриса немого кино Мери Пикфорд. "Длинноногий дядюшка" – очень известное произведение Джин Уэбстер. Кто он такой, Длинноногий Дядюшка? Молодая воспитанница колледжа видела его только однажды, со спины. Он устроил ее в колледж с условием, что она будет писать ему письма без надежды на ответ. И исчез из ее жизни… Пытаясь разгадать тайну Длинноногого Дядюшки, в действительности девочка-подросток открывает мир и собственную душу. Это трогательное, полное юмора произведение оставляет ощущение свежести и тепла. Легкий и доступный язык Уэбстер делает книгу привлекательной даже для тех, кто еще только начинает изучать английский язык.

The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons.Maria's dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves and street-walkers. Her mother, tiring of turning tricks for her husband, walked out, leaving the children in his chaotic, violent and sometimes cruel care. By the age of nine, Maria's father was abusing her and getting a prostitute friend to dress her up in stockings and make-up. By the time she was fourteen he was selling her on the streets of the red light district in Norwich.Despite everything Maria still loved her swaggering and sometimes charming father and found it hard to sort out her own feelings. At fifteen she ran away to King's Cross with an older lover who turned out to be just another pimp. Furious at losing a nice little earner her father involved the police and both he and the other man were jailed for living off Maria's immoral earnings. Only then could Maria escape her traumatic childhood and follow her dream of becoming a mother.