num_pages: 320
description: At twenty-one Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty and keeping the peace between her eternally warring long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. Shes got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station mini-mart and falling in love with a great wall of a man named William Ashe who willingly steps between the armed robber and her son.Shandi doesnt know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: Its been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his universe. But William doesnt define destiny the way other people do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in science and numbers destiny to him is about choice.Now he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on in a funny charming and poignant novel about science and miracles secrets and truths faith and forgiveness; about a virgin birth a sacrifice and a resurrection; about falling in love and learning that things arent always what they seemor what we hope they will be. Its a novel about discovering what we want and ultimately finding what we need
language: English
title: Someone Else's Love Story
publisher: William Morrow