The Most Wanted

by JacquelynMitchard (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $5.94

  The long awaited second novel from Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the million-copy selling The Deep End of the Ocean. The Most Wanted is a romance in the epic tradition, about love that can come along once in a lifetime and challenge all of us to break the rules. Arley Mowbray, only fourteen years old, is dreaming her life away in South Texas when -- defying all earthly logic -- she falls in love, at hurricane force, with an outlaw and secretly becomes his wife. Public-aid lawyer Annie Singer, whose own careful, well-ordered life is catapulted into change from the moment she meets Arley, will become first the girl's advocate and defender, then the closest thing to a loving mother Arley will ever have. What happens to Arley and her husband, Dillon LeGrande, is the stuff of legend. He will break out of prison on a terrifying errand, but is it to claim his wife and their baby daughter or to destroy them? His love will put them into nearly unthinkable danger -- danger Arley and even Annie will find too compelling to ignore, too seductive to flee. No other writer has Mitchard's fierce, brave and tender insights into the bonds of mothers and daughters. Larger than life, yet the very stuff of life itself, The Most Wanted is the tour de force that the many who treasure The Deep End of the Ocean have been waiting for.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.28

  The long awaited second novel from Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the million selling The Deep End of the Ocean. Arley Mowbray, only fourteen years old, is dreaming her life away in South Texas when -- defying all earthly logic -- she falls in love with an outlaw, Dillon LeGrande, and becomes his wife, and the mother of his child. When she meets her advocate and defender, Annie Singer, both their lives will change for ever. What happens to Arley and her husband is the stuff of legend. Dillon will break out of prison on a terrifying errand, but is it to claim his wife and baby daughter or to destroy them? Larger than life, yet the very stuff of life itself, The Most Wanted is a spellbinding story of reckless love that breaks all the rules -- a tour de force in which Jacquelyn Mitchard's fierce, tender insights into the bonds of mothers and daughters are powerfully and unforgettably conveyed.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $7.86

  A naive teenage girl in south Texas falls in love with her prison pen pal. The object of her affection--a charming, dangerously handsome young felon who romances her through his letters to her. After a love affair that defies all conventions, they marry and have a child while the father is still imprisoned. But when he escapes prison to claim his wife and child, what started as a passionate romance turns into a terrifying ordeal of obsession and desire. The young girls only hope is a fiercely dedicated public aid lawyer who is more of a mother figure than the girl has ever known, and the only one who can avert disaster for mother and child! Praise for The Most Wanted : Poignantly told...Anyone who has ever fallen for an unsuitable love will respond to Mitchard's tale of the yearning that transcends reason. -- People Compelling, appealing, distinctive. -- Chicago Tribune Even more daring and powerful than her debut...superb. -- Booklist Mitchard has created unforgettable characters in evocative Texas settings in this assured, accomplished, and achingly lovely novel. -- Library Journal Deeply affecting....readers will undoubtably be engrossed. -- Publishers Weekly