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      ISBN: 0553385526

      ISBN13: 9780553385526

      The Secret of Everything

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      Book Overview

      In this spectacular new novel, Barbara O'Neal delivers a generous helping of the best in life-family, food, and love-in the story of a woman's search for the one thing worth more than anything. At thirty-seven, Tessa Harlow is still working her way down her list of goals to "fall in love and have a family." A self-described rolling stone, Tessa leads hiking tours for adventurous vacationers-it's a job that's taken her around the world but never a step closer to home. Then a freak injury during a trip already marred by tragedy forces her to begin her greatest adventure of all. Located high in the New Mexico mountains, Las Ladronas has become a magnet for the very wealthy and very hip, but once upon a time it was the setting of a childhood trauma Tessa can only half remember. Now, as she rediscovers both her old hometown and her past, Tessa is drawn to search-and-rescue worker Vince Grasso. The handsome widower isn't her type. No more inclined to settle down than Tessa, Vince is the father of three, including an eight-year-old girl as lost as Tessa herself. But Tessa and Vince are both drawn to the town's most beloved eatery-100 Breakfasts-and to each other. For Tessa, the restaurant is not only the key to the mystery that has haunted her life but a chance to find the home and the family she's never known.

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      Family Secrets Friendship Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Domestic Life Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction

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      Rated 4 stars
      Quintessential "beach book" and enjoyable read

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      This book doesn't belong in the top tier because it's not life-changing or edifying in any way, but boy does it entertain! It was the quintessential "beach book" and, if truth be told, probably a "chick book." It was just what I needed to push away the winter doldrums and get my mind off anything stressful, and I carried it with me so I could read whenever I was waiting for anything (dentist's office, meetings, etc.). Tessa...

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      Rated 5 stars
      wonderful book

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      This book is wonderful. As Tessa searches for and discovers the secret of everything we become involved in a touching story of love. Barbara O'Neal has such a marvelous talent when it comes to her women. They are strong and confident, graceful and gutsy. While they connect with each other you are inextricably drawn to them. The Secret of Everything is as satisfying as chocolate melting in the mouth. It is to be savored...

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      Rated 4 stars
      engaging character study

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      Following the total disaster in Montana, thirty seven years old hiking tour guide Tessa Harlow returns home to her father Sam the surfer dude in Santa Cruz. While her foot is in a cast healing, mentally Tessa thinks about her birthplace, Las Ladronas, New Mexico. Tessa decides it is time to truly go home. .In Las Ladronas, Tessa meets single dad Vince Grasso and his three girls (Natalie, Hannah and Jade). Vince and Tessa...

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      Rated 5 stars
      Another fabulous book by Barbara O'Neal

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      When I picked up this book at Target, I didn't realize it was written by the same author of The Lost Recipe For Happiness, another book I truly enjoyed and own. About 1/4 of the way through the book, I checked the authors on both books and realized they were the same. O'Neal's style of writing is so descriptive and unique. While you can read the book's summary in, well, the summary section, I'll explain what I thought made...

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      Rated 5 stars
      The Secret of Everything

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      Tessa Harlow enjoyed leading hiking tours until the hike that had a nightmarish ending. Feeling tremendous guilt and responsibility for the incident she goes to her father's home to heal. From the time of the accident she has flashbacks from her early childhood - memories that don't make sense. Feeling a pull to the area where she spent the first years of her life, Tessa heads to New Mexico to scout possible hiking tours and...

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