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-*"So-Baek, So-Baek. Come live with me." "Yes. I will. I will always be with you."* Smaller and weaker than his brothers, a baby fox with blue eyes and white fur is abandoned by its mother and left alone in the forest. In front of the trembling, terrified fox, a boy named Mu-Heun appears and takes the fox to his house and gives it the name So-Baek, which means small and white. Their friendly and affectionate days end tragically when intruders come and murder the boy and his family while So-Baek was out hunting one day. In front of the battered corpse, So-Baek sheds tears. It vows. *"I will be a human being and pray for the rest of my life. May the ashes of Mu-Heun reincarnate and come to see me."* Seventy years passed by, and a man with empty eyes appears to the lonely So-Baek. Why does he remind So-Baek of Mu-Heun?
[From fictiondb] Have you ever seen a real, live mermaid? Andrew Cordell has! For a few moments, anyway. It happened while he was diving in the Bahamas. And it changed his life. Andrew, a powerful and charismatic state governor had been emotionally devastated by his wife's death four years earlier. Now, suddenly, his heart felt alive again--because of this mermaid. In reality, she was a swimming instructor and aspiring marine biologist named Lindsay Marshall, who'd been hired to play a mermaid for a television commercial. And she did it well enough to convince at least an unsuspecting diver! Andrew was completely enchanted when he saw her. Like a fairy-tale prince. Like a shipwrecked sailor lured into love....
**Love had no part in her plans** Victor Tourelle was as tawny and rugged as the Moroccan landscape itself. He thought Madeline's father was a fool to let her come to this country with no one to protect her except her employer. But Madeline was an independent-minded woman, and she had every intention of following her father's advice not to fall in love. Love, however, she quickly learned, has nothing whatever to do with intentions!
from fictiondb: Tessa Marsden. Her marriage was a mistake; her son, Scotty was not. She loves her child with all her heart and soul. She's tried hard to make the marriage work, but this is a marriage that can't be saved. She knows now that she has to get out - before it completely destroys her and her husband, Grant. But when she files for divorce, Grant - for reasons of his own, reasons she doesn't understand - demands full custody of Scotty. Tessa can't live with that. She can't live without her child. Alex Sommerfield. He's the lawyer handling her divorce. He defies all the rules by falling in love with his client. But he's determined not to put her custody case or her happiness at risk...
A SECOND CHANCE OF LOVING ONE ANOTHER -- AS HUSBAND AND WIFE As a single mom, Rachel Marsden has always tried to do her best by her daughter. So when Natalie's long-lost father, Tris Monbrisson, shows up Rachel swallows her feelings and puts her daughter first. For the summer holiday they'll move to Tris's beautiful home, nestled in the mountains of Switzerland. Tris is angry with Rachel—he's missed out on twelve years of his daughter's life because he didn't know she existed! But as Rachel and Tris fall into the role of mother and father—and the secrets of the past are unraveled—the bond between them grows....
"Doesn't your job ever make you yearn for a child of your own?" Rachel Ellis had come to Spain to find her brother and, instead, discovered a tiny niece she hadn't even known existed. Rachel longed for a baby of her own but, since there seemed little chance of finding Mr. Right, looking after Luisa seemed to be the next best thing. But little Luisa came equipped with a self-appointed guardian - Vincente de Riano. A man who was husband material by anyone's standards, and Rachel found it all too easy to imagine being married to the charming widower. It was a dangerous dream, for Vincente had turned his back on love and Rachel was too much of a romantic to settle for anything less. The baby business had always been fraught with hazards. Rachel was used to growing too attached to her small charges - it was her feelings for Vincente she couldn't control!
