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Father to Be
β Scribed by Pappano, Marilyn
- Book ID
- 107202302
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 287 KB
- Series
- Bethlehem 3
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Four miracles and a bachelor add up to...one family.
J.D. Grayson agrees that the Brown kids, abandoned by their parents, deserve a loving home. He's just not sure that one man is parent enough for four young children--not if he is that one man. But a persuasive--and mysterious--young woman insists he's exactly what the children need. Now he has to convince twelve-year-old Caleb, fierce guardian of his younger brothers and sister--and then pass muster with Kelsey Malone, Bethlehem's newly arrived social worker.
With one good deed, J.D. finds his life turned upside down. The kids barely talk to him and they won't eat his home-cooked meals. Then he finds himself looking forward to Kelsey's home visits too much. Her buttoned-down suit and tough-as-nails professionalism can't hide the vulnerable woman inside. But haunted by the shattered life he left behind, J.D. doesn't want to risk loving again.
It'll take a miracle to make a family of them all...but...
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