Bøker av Jill Engledow

Homeless on Maui?Sleeping on the beach sounds like fun . . . Until you have no other choice.When single mom Carrie Ann Emerson and her little girl Rorie have to find a place of their own, they encounter one stroke of bad luck-or bad landlord-after another. Carrie Ann is beginning to wonder if they'll end up living on the beach. But then they find the home of their dreams in rural Makawao, and an adopted family as well.Auntie Rose McKenzie, the kind old lady next door, needs their help and company as she finally faces long-ago memories of heartbreak and loss. Rorie loves the country life, Carrie Ann's career is taking off, and romance is on the horizon.But when Auntie Rose receives bad news about her land, and a storm sweeps over Makawao, Carrie Ann must pick up the pieces, or once again, she and Rorie will be without a place to call home.You'll love A Dollar and Love, because love--and a strong woman--always find a way. Get it now! Volume 2, The Maui Trilogy. 84,000 words

Revised and improved edition!1971: Two lost girls on Maui. . .One gets found . . .The other must find herself.Struggling to survive as a single mother, Carrie Ann Emerson has made a home for herself and her four-year-old daughter in the San Francisco hippie community of Haight-Ashbury.Then little Rorie disappears. Frantic, Carrie Ann searches for her child. When word comes that Rorie has turned up in a hippie commune on the Hawaiian island of Maui, Carrie Ann must rush to this faraway place before her daughter can be put up for adoption.But the judge, skeptical about a mother who somehow managed to misplace her child, will return Rorie only if the two stay on Maui. Now Carrie Ann must make their life anew.Maui has its benefits-like meeting Michael. Carrie Ann thinks handsome, sexy Michael might be the man she needs.But how much of herself must she give up to hold on to him? And, with or without a man, can Carrie Ann be the kind of mother her little girl needs?A great book club read from an award-winning Maui author. Get it now!Volume 1,The Maui Trilogy85,800 words