Action thriller by the classic adventure writer about security consultant, Max Stafford, set in Kenya. When a legacy of Β£40 million is left to a small college in Kenya, investigations begin about the true identities of the heirs β the South African, Dirk Hendriks, and his namesake, Henry Hendrix fro
Windfall
β Scribed by Jennifer E. Smith
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books;Delacorte Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 443 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1509831703
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β¦ Synopsis
**Filled with all of Jenny Han's "favorite things", a romantic new novel from the author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. This story of hope, chance, and change is one Morgan Matson calls "something wonderful" and Stephanie Perkins says "is rich with the intensity of real love."
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Alice doesn't believe in luck--at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she's been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth birthday--just when it seems they might be on the brink of something--she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment, he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes.
At first, it seems like a dream come true, especially since the two of them are no strangers to misfortune. As a kid, Alice won the worst kind of lottery possible when her parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after...
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