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"A Mainstream Warm-Hearted Novel"
Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted December 15, 2002

Annie Hunter comes home from work one day to find a young teenager asleep on her front porch swing. Somewhat disconcerted, she calls the police. When the boy awakes, he tells her that he thinks she is his mother. Not ever having had any children, she knows Read more...

"exciting contemporary romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted December 25, 2002

In Bedford, Rhode Island, one year ago today, Annie Hunter's beloved husband Richard suddenly died of a massive heart attack at forty-two years old. Though still grieving, Annie's interior decorator business remains a success though her personal life is a zilch. Annie comes home from work only to see a Read more...

USA Today bestselling author Dee Holmes brings us a deeply moving story of a woman whose life is transformed by a boy who suddenly appears on her porch one day...

Summary

On the one-year anniversary of her husband's death, Annie Hunter comes home to find a ragged-looking boy asleep on her porch. When he awakes, she discovers his name is Cullen Gallagher--and that he's convinced that Annie is his mother. Everyone knows his claim is preposterous, especially because she and her late husband, Richard, never had the chance to fulfill their dream of having children. Yet Annie finds herself drawn into the boy's search for his birth parents--and to Linc McCoy, the handsome, rough-edged director of the home for troubled boys where Cullen lives. Slowly, Annie begins to imagine making a place in her life for young Cullen--and for Linc, the one man who could heal her wounded heart...