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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

This sampler collection includes excerpts from three of Catherine McKenzie’s novels, exploring romance, relationships, and the challenges in figuring out who we really are: in Spin, a woman discovers more about herself than she had expected when she follows an It Girl Into rehab in pursuit of the inside scoop; in Arranged, an unlucky-in-love woman signs up for a dating service—only to find out the company specializes in arranged marriage and is hiding a shocking secret; and in Forgotten, when a vacation turns into a six-month stay in a remote village, a woman returns home to discover that life has moved on without her. Featuring excerpts from the Catherine McKenzie’s best-selling titles Spin, Arranged, and Forgotten.

Let me try to show you the folly of this state of indifference. It would be very foolish to expose yourself to any great temporal loss or suffering, if by a little forethought and consideration it might be averted. Suppose you were afflicted with some terrible disease, which by the use of judicious means might be arrested, and your life be saved; but when your friends warn you and counsel you to seek medical aid, you say, `I don't care about my lungs or my liver; here are these books, I must attend to them; here is this shop, this building; I cannot stop to think of my body'; and on you go, indifferent to the consequences. What folly. Your friends would say, `He is mad,' and truly you would prove yourself to be so. Ah, you say, `There are no people so foolish as that.' No, perhaps not in temporal things; but, alas! There are thousands of such `fools' spiritually. How the Devil laughs at such people! What chuckling they have over them down below!Catherine Booth