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Fancy dancer / Fern Michaels.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2016Copyright date: ©2012Edition: First Kensington trade paperback editionDescription: 248 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781496707246 (paperback)
  • 1496707249 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends for their father's past neglect. At least, that's the plan. When their initial meeting goes badly, a distraught Jake crashes his car and is sentenced to community work--with Alex as his parole officer. Jake must spend a year helping Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at the Dancer Foundation for neglected children. Fancy, scarred within and without by the accident that ended her ballet career, is even less happy with the arrangement than Jake. Yet as they're thrown together, Jake, Alex, Angelica, and Fancy make unexpected connections. And as he unravels the painful truths of his past, Jake realizes that his mother's greatest gift to him lies not in his inheritance, but in the future, and the family, he's slowly piecing together" -- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection MICH 2 Available T00612703
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends for their father's past neglect.

When their initial meeting goes badly, a distraught Jake crashes his car and is sentenced to community work--with Alex as his parole officer. Jake must spend a year helping Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at the Dancer Foundation for neglected children. Fancy, scarred by the accident that ended her ballet career, is even less happy with the arrangement than Jake. Yet as they're all thrown together, unexpected connections help Jake realize that his mother's greatest gift to him lies not in his inheritance, but in the future, and the family, he's slowly piecing together . . .

"Michaels' latest is sure to capture the hearts of its readers, even while tickling their funny bones."-- Booklist on The Blossom Sisters

"Michaels just keeps getting better and better with each book . . . She never disappoints." -- RT Book Reviews , 4 Stars on Forget Me Not

"On his thirty-fifth birthday, Jake St. Cloud inherits a fortune--and learns the whereabouts of his mysterious half-brother. On her deathbed, Selma St. Cloud revealed that Jake had a sibling, a product of his father's affair. At last, Jake is in a position to track down Alex Rosario and make amends for their father's past neglect. At least, that's the plan. When their initial meeting goes badly, a distraught Jake crashes his car and is sentenced to community work--with Alex as his parole officer. Jake must spend a year helping Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at the Dancer Foundation for neglected children. Fancy, scarred within and without by the accident that ended her ballet career, is even less happy with the arrangement than Jake. Yet as they're thrown together, Jake, Alex, Angelica, and Fancy make unexpected connections. And as he unravels the painful truths of his past, Jake realizes that his mother's greatest gift to him lies not in his inheritance, but in the future, and the family, he's slowly piecing together" -- Provided by publisher.

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Library Journal Review

Today is the first day of the rest of your life is the cliche that opens the story of 35-year-old Jake St. Cloud, who is now tired of living the life with the money he inherited from his mother's estate. After a conference near New Orleans with his family's lawyers and meeting a brother he never knew he had, Jake causes a traffic accident. He admits his guilt and agrees to serve a one-year probation at a shelter for abused children. There Jake meets Fancy Dancer, a beautiful former ballerina who runs the shelter. Tension builds, but eventually Jake and Fancy blend their families into one happy group. Verdict Fans of Michaels will enjoy her first original ebook with its overabundance of plotlines involving Jake and Fancy and their extended families. Readers new to Michaels might be frustrated by the twisting tales.-Joyce Sparrow, Kenneth City, FL (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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