Review: A really sweet story.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2012
I've read a few books by this author before, and I enjoyed them a lot. So...when I found this one on the free list, I figured why not? I'm so glad I did. This was a very sweet tender story dealing with love, loss, abandonment issues, and finally feeling like you belong again.Tessa's father walked out on her and her mother years ago, then one day she was dropped off at school by her mother when she was only seven years, only her mother never return again. From that day forward, and after being shoved from one bad foster home to another, Tessa learned never to love or trust anyone again. If she never learned anything else, she knew if she let herself get close to anyone else, they'd only leave you behind feeling broken hearted in the end. But she does find a good friend to confide in while she was in college. Leslie and Tessa became good friends over the years. She was also dating a man named Max, but she never let herself fall in love with him, because she knew if she did he'd only end up going away and breaking her heart, just like everyone else had. So when she graduated from college and was offered a job overseas as a consultant, she jump on it, even though Max had begged her to stay.Max was so broken hearted when Tessa left him behind, but he had Leslie there to help him pick up the pieces of his life and taught him how to heal his heart. Soon after that they found themselves in love, and eventually married and had a son named Ryan. When Ryan was only a few years old, his mother died of cancer. Ryan seemed okay or at least everyone thought he was, until he started school and talked with a few other students in his classroom. Listening to the other students talk about how their parents fought and how they eventually ended up divorcing. It was then that he started to feel like his mother must have left him,  because he had done something bad to make her leave just like all those other kids parents did.Tessa is Ryan's God-Mother and comes to visit him on his birthday every year, but this year she senses that something is not quite right with Ryan, so she offers to stay around until they can figure out what's going on with him, and why he doesn't seem to want any friends.This story is so touching, it'll warm your heart. And I'm not ashamed to admit... I did shed a few tears a time or two. But in the end my heart swelled with happiness and joy for them all.Would I recommend this book? Yes!!!!