Sisters Like Us. Сьюзен Мэллери

      

      The grass is always greener on your sister’s side of the fence...

      Divorce left Harper Szymanski with a name no one can spell, a house she can't afford and a teenage daughter who's pulling away. With her fledgling virtual-assistant business, she's scrambling to maintain her overbearing mother’s ridiculous Susie Homemaker standards and still pay the bills, thanks to clients like Lucas, the annoying playboy cop who claims he hangs around for Harper's fresh-baked cookies.

      Spending half her life in school hasn't prepared Dr. Stacey Bloom for her most daunting challenge—motherhood. She didn't inherit the nurturing gene like Harper and is in deep denial that a baby is coming. Worse, her mother will be horrified to learn that Stacey's husband plans to be a stay-at-home dad…assuming Stacey can first find the courage to tell Mom she's already six months pregnant.

      Separately they may be a mess, but together Harper and Stacey can survive anything—their indomitable mother, overwhelming maternity stores and ex’s weddings. Sisters Like Us is a delightful look at sisters, mothers and daughters in today’s fast-paced world, told with Susan Mallery’s trademark warmth and humor.

      #1 NYT bestselling author SUSAN MALLERY writes heartwarming, humorous novels about the relationships that define our lives – family, friendship, romance. She’s known for putting nuanced characters in emotional situations that surprise readers to laughter. Beloved by millions, her books have been translated into 28 languages. Susan lives in Washington with her husband, two cats, and a small poodle with delusions of grandeur.

       Also by Susan Mallery

      Secrets of the Tulip Sisters

      Daughters of the Bride

      Happily Inc

      Second Chance Girl

      You Say It First

      Mischief Bay

      A Million Little Things

      The Friends We Keep

      The Girls of Mischief Bay

      Fool’s Gold

      Best of My Love

      Marry Me at Christmas

      Thrill Me

      Kiss Me

      Hold Me

      Until We Touch

      Before We Kiss

      When We Met

      Christmas on 4th Street

      Three Little Words

      Two of a Kind

      Just One Kiss

      A Fool’s Gold Christmas

      All Summer Long

      Summer Nights

      Summer Days

      Only His

      Only Yours

      Only Mine

      Finding Perfect

      Almost Perfect

      Chasing Perfect

      For a complete list of titles available from Susan Mallery, please visit www.SusanMallery.com.

Copyright

      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018

      Copyright © Susan Mallery Inc. 2018

      Susan Mallery Inc. asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9781474074728

      I acknowledge it is very, very wrong for an author to have a favorite book. Books are like children and we should love them all equally. Yet I will confess (but only to you) that I had great fun writing this one. So much fun. And I love all the characters, even Bunny, and I admit that Lucas turned out to be much more amazing that I’d ever anticipated.

      This book is for those of you who will unexpectedly fall wildly in love with Lucas…even though you think you shouldn’t!

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       About the Author

       Booklist

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine