Choosing Sophie

Authors: Carroll, Leslie
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC027020, FIC027250
ISBN: 9780061741265, Related ISBNs: 0061741264, 9780060871376, 9780061741265
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 272,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

When life throws you a curve ball...

Venus deMarley has just been hit with a wild pitch. At forty she's finally found the perfect fiancé, when Sophie—the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years ago—suddenly reappears. Venus has another crisis on her hands as well: her eccentric millionaire dad just died and willed her his pet project—a rag-tag minor league baseball team called the Bronx Cheers—if Venus and Sophie can reconcile and once again become a family. Venus knows diddly about sports, but Sophie's a jock, unlike her glamorous mom. And after two decades apart, these two women know nothing about each other, and rarely agree on anything. But maybe—just maybe—they have more in common than they think...

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