More Than Anything

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Summary: A fast paced romance...
Review: In More Than Anything, Joan Hohl brings the reader two novels of two people that found each other when all the odds were against them.

THORNE'S WAY...Valerie Jordan stopped living the day her fiancee died right before her eyes. Two weeks before her wedding day, Valerie simply gave up on life. When her best friend told her that she was returning back to work as the executive secretary for the owner of J.T. Electronics, Val had mixed feelings. A part of her didn't want to give up the blessed numbness that she had felt for two months, where the other part of her knew that she had to go on living, somehow. Feeling optimistic, she excepted Janet's offer, but knew that she had made a mistake the first moment that she set eyes on Jonas Thorpe. Rising up from nothing, Jonas had earned his money through a lot of hard work. The only thing he cares about besides his company is his daughter, Mary Beth, and his former mother-in-law, Marge. When the elusive and vunerable Val comes into his life, Jonas knew that he would have her. His only problem was that he was competing with a ghost, one that Val couldn't let go of. So he asked her to marry him, offering her the only thing he knew she would want...a baby. Val then has to deal with the aloofness of the man she is in love with, while Jonas has to deal with jealousy, which he has never felt, and a feelings of incompletness. When they finally come together, they know that it is worth everything they had to do to get where they were...together.

THORPE'S WIFE...Three and a half years later, Val still isn't pregnant. After her miscarriage, Val desperately wanted a baby. She soon started to feel incomplete as Jonas's wife. She loved him as much as always, and knew that he loved her, but she felt like little more than a possesion. After being estranged for two weeks, Val and Jonas find common ground again, and come together like they were never together before. Where they didn't talk beyond the mundane, now they bared their souls to each other. Then Jonas is kidnapped for politcal reasons and Val believes him dead. After a year of mourning him, Jonas finally returns home where Val has never stopped loving him. Jonas finally knows what is more important than his company...his family.