Family relationships have always intrigued me, maybe because of my own large and diverse extended family. I’ve examined family connections often in my writing—from my first Special Edition, Healing Sympathy, in which the orphaned heroine assembled her own “family” of equally lonely misfits (which eventually included the emotionally battered hero), to the more recent “Family Found” series, which involved a group of six siblings separated as small children and finding each other as adults. Close families, stepfamilies, dysfunctional families, foster families—they all fascinate me, and all provide unlimited inspiration for my work.
A Man for Mom is the first book of a new series, “The Family Way,” and Rachel Carson Evans is a very Special Woman to me—a widowed mother of two who has become so overwhelmed by her responsibilities to her children and her late husband’s business that she has almost forgotten she has needs of her own. Rachel is strongly influenced by another Special Woman—her grandmother, Frances, known to the family as “Granny Fran.” It is Frances who encourages Rachel to enjoy life to the fullest. Enter fun-loving young attorney, Seth Fletcher...and a new family is formed.
In the next three books of “The Family Way” series, Frances’s other grandchildren will find new families of their own, usually when they least expect to do so, and in ways they couldn’t have predicted! I’m having a wonderful time helping Granny Fran play matchmaker. I can’t wait to see what she has in store for Celia, Cody and Adam! I would love for you to join me in finding out.
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