Family for Keeps

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Summary: A Warm, Wonderful Story!
Review: Ms. Daley tells such a warm, wonderful story! Her characters feel so real. I'm so glad to see that Ms. Daley has more books coming soon.

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Summary: A Clown Should Never Have to Cry
Review: Twenty-eight-year-old pediatric nurse Tess Morgan sometimes dresses as a clown to add a little cheer into the lives of the sick children in the hospital. And, truth be told, she could use a little cheering up in her own life as well. Ever since her fiancé had been murdered, she'd been sort of adrift, her faith kind of lost. Now she lives her life for the children and one in particular has caught her heart, a boy named Johnny who is very ill. Johnny is a ward of the state and has been shuffled from one foster home to another.

Thirty-four year-old Peter "Mac" MacPherson comes into the hospital to get the cast taken off the leg he broke when he fell from the roof of a half way house he'd been helping out at. He catches Tess crying in her clown outfit and is captured by her eyes. Later he learns about Johnny and when he meets the boy he takes an immediate shine to him. Like Tess, he has suffered his share of personal tragedy, having lost his wife and father, so now he is raising his young daughter, Amy, without a mother.

During the course of the story Mac becomes so taken with little Johnny, that he adopts him, but can he guide Tess back to the faith she lost when she lost her fiancé? And will they get together and live happily ever after?

I really liked this inspirational romance. Actually I've liked most of the ones in the Steeple Hill catalog that I've read. That must be why I keep coming back to them. "Family for Keeps" is a super story, one that touched my heart and I'm sure it will touch yours as well.