Summary
Perennial bestseller Judith Michael (aka Judith Barnard and Michael Fain) turns once again to a story of a family in crisis. Sara Elliott is the rock on which her family leans; her father is dead and, since her mother's stroke, Sara has given up her own life to return home and take care of her three much younger siblings. But when the charismatic but unreliable Mack-Sara's half brother-returns to the family home in Chicago, proving to be not only a foul-mouthed bad influence on the children but a sinister figure with an even worse agenda, Sara finds her life spinning out of her control. And then she meets Reuben Lister, who is in the process of moving from New York's Greenwich Village to Chicago, who just may be the man she's been searching for. But is Mack out to sabotage their romance along with everything else?
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harperaudio
Published date: 2005
Size: 5.25 x 5.75 inches
Weight: 0.32 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Sara Elliott has been forced to give up her own dreams to return home to Chicago and take charge of her young sisters and brother. She finds a job and settles into the house where she grew up, building a life for ten-year-old Doug and teenagers Carrie and Abby. But Sara has another brother. Mack, now twenty, suddenly reappears, cheerful and unconcerned, as if he had never broken his promise to help Sara with the children. With bewildering volatility, Mack swings from kindness to cruelty, affection to hostility, keeping the family on edge, his past and present a mystery. But Mack is winning over the children and sometimes the four of them stand together against Sara. And then, when she thinks her life has room only for work and family, Sara meets Reuben Lister, a client from New York. As Sara helps him find and furnish a house, they discover a closeness neither has known before. Together, Sara and Reuben find answers to the questions: What is a mother? What is a parent? What is a family? This is Judith Michael’s most poignant exploration of the pressures and joys facing modern adults and children, in a story that will resonate with everyone for its universal themes and discoveries. Performed by Melissa Leo
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