Terry Ward Tucker
ASIN: B00GG1CAEQ
Publisher: Capulet
Pages: 296
Cultures clash in a big way when saucy sassy teenage project princess, Larissa Harold, blows into the life of retired Southern widower, Dr. Bedon Calhoun, Sr., and permanently knocks his ordered existence off its aristocratic foundation. When Larissa shares her personal problems with Bedon, problems so horrific they appear to have no solutions - poverty, violence in her home at the hands of her mother's series of deadbeat boyfriends, not to mention her own advancing pregnancy that not even her mother is aware of - the good doctor forgets about the miserable loneliness that has plagued him since the death of his wife, Hildie, and takes Larissa on as his secret charity. But as he reaches deep into his bank account and deeper into his inner soul in repeated efforts to provide healing for the sweet and salty girl, he somehow finds healing for himself, plus a special kind of love that turns ...