I was adopted after she and my father spent years trying to get pregnant. Not that she would ever admit that out loud. Maybe that's why she overcompensates with me so much. And for all this, I suspect I am my mother's greatest disappointment. You could quite literally call me the black sheep of the family. Thank God those are back in fashion now, so I no longer have to endure hours of root-ripping torture. My features aren't delicate, either: nose more pronounced than most, lips fuller than usual, and I seem to have large, furry caterpillars masquerading as eyebrows. I'm also dark, with a complexion that goes the color of a cappuccino with too much sun-I avoid it at all costs. They're also all terribly attractive, looking like one of those happy families that appear in TV ads for fiber-rich breakfast cereal or get up and go multivitamins. They're short, fair skinned, with strawberry blond hair, blue eyes, and cute little button noses.
My family-Mom, Dad, and twin sisters Janet and Jenna (my mother has a thing for the letter J)-all look alike.
You would have to be seriously visually impaired not to notice. It's not one of those closely guarded family secrets that makes its way onto a TLC reality show: My mother is actually my father's Siamese twin's second cousin's daughter's lover twice removed.īesides, it's pretty damn obvious. The dialogue was witty, the words were well-written and the heroine was one-of-a-kind.” - Harlequin Junkie Read Excerpt “Top Pick! Almost a Bride put a smile on my face more than once. Will Jane find her biological father, or will she end up finding something else entirely? But real Jane might finally be ready to listen to her heart. Stable Jane would never risk a steamy vacation romance. He offers to help Jane with her search- if she’ll go on an adventure with him. First, everyone in Greece is named Dimitri, and second, fate might be playing a sick joke on her when a sexy tour guide called Dimitri comes to fetch her from the airport. Within minutes of landing she makes two important discoveries. Armed with this knowledge and several surprise boxes of condoms from her mom (not embarrassing at all), Jane takes off. All she knows about him is it that he was a tour guide named Dimitri.
So in a very un-Jane-like move, she books a last-minute ticket to Greece to find her birth father and the real Jane. As her twenty-fifth birthday approaches, she is struck by an overwhelming longing to finally find her place in the world. For fans of USA Today bestselling authors Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne comes a hilarious romantic comedy about finding your family, finding yourself, and maybe finding love along the way.īeing adopted never made Jane Smith feel unloved, just unlike the rest of her family.
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