Review: Wholesome love story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2013
When single schoolteacher, Emilie Ferrier meets with Nick Garrett about his rebellious nephew, Adam, who is not doing his work in her class and who is misbehaving and getting into fights on the school grounds, she does not know that Nick is also the uncle of the baby girl she is trying to adopt.  She thought the adoption was a sure thing but then her lawyers inform her that the baby's guardian (whose name is never mentioned) is not keen on having a single woman adopt his niece but is adamant that she be adopted by a couple as he wants her to have both a mother and a father.  After all, if he thought that a single parent could give the little girl everything she needs, he would keep her himself!When she finally learns that Nick is the one who is keeping her from adopting the baby, Emilie tries to get him to change his mind but if she is able to adopt the little girl, there is the possibility that she might not even be able to handle taking care of her.  She already has the custody and guardianship of an old-maid aunt who is slightly mentally unbalanced and who has a propensity for running naked through the woods at every full moon.  Emilie is also responsible for the care and upkeep of a white elephant of a mansion that has a ballroom and 18 bedrooms.  Just to put the crowning touch on all Emilie's problems, she also has survived polio and walks with a very noticeable limp which causes her to have frequent falls and she is often taunted by cruel people who stare at her or laugh or even call her "cripple" to her face.And where does Alain Jackson (I know, but the spelling's different), a handsome young attorney who is trying to court Emilie fit into this picture?  He seems like a really nice guy but he readily admits that to him the most attractive thing about Emilie is her family's money.As if Emilie and Nick don't have enough to deal with, Adam disappears in the midst of a terrible snowstorm when people are being told to stay home and parents are picking their children up early from school and the roads are nearly impassable and it's getting dark and Adam is only nine years old...This is a wholesome love story that you can safely recommend to young and old alike without reservations.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.