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Promises to Keep

Promises to Keep, March 2005
by Susan Crandall

Warner Forever
Featuring: Molly Boudreau; Dean Coletta
480 pages
ISBN: 0446614114
Paperback
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"Touching, well-written story."

Fresh Fiction Review

Promises to Keep
Susan Crandall

Reviewed by Morgan Chilson
Posted February 23, 2005

Romance Contemporary

Molly Boudreau loves her work as a doctor at a local clinic -- after all, being a doctor was what she gave up everything to accomplish. One of her favorite patients is Sarah Morgan, a pregnant young woman who refuses to go to the hospital and delivers her baby right in the clinic. Sarah shows up later, saying that there's a problem and she must have somewhere safe to leave her newborn baby boy, Nicolas. Reluctantly, Molly agrees to keep the baby. But her whole world falls apart when Sarah disappears and Molly learns of her death, finally understanding from Sarah's cryptic words that she was in fear of the baby's father. Holding that tiny life close, Molly makes a huge decision and takes leave from her practice, going straight to her hometown. There, she confronts her family, who believe the baby is hers and feel betrayed. Not only that, but soon after she's followed to town by Dean Coletta, who seems to have a hidden agenda. Could he be in league with the baby's father? Ms. Crandall always delivers a touching, well-written story and she doesn't fail the reader this time. I was a little cynical about Molly's willingness to give up everything for the baby, I admit. But I liked Molly and Dean, who was a little of a lost soul, trying to find a relationship with a sister he's already lost. You'll enjoy this book!

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SUMMARY

Molly Boudreau has worked all of her life with a single minded focus: becoming a doctor. She's overcome every obstacle in her path, of which there were many for the third child of a single father in small town Indiana. But as she stands on the threshold of her dreams, she realizes her quest has left her isolated, she yearns for a soul- stirring connection. And her prayers are answered in a way she never could have predicted. Sarah Morgan, a pregnant woman with a past cloaked in secrecy, shows up at Molly's clinic. Molly suspects a woman in hiding. Two souls, both needing friendship, soon find it in one another. But Sarah is murdered only days after her baby's birth, and after extracting a promise from Molly to protect the baby from its unnamed father—a man the mother swore was evil, a man Molly suspects killed her. Molly risks both her safety and career when she flees Boston and returns to her Indiana hometown. With everyone assuming the infant is hers, she has no trouble hiding the much more explosive truth—until magazine reporter Dean Coletta arrives and begins asking probing questions. Molly tries to guard her heart, but Dean soon fires that emotional connection she's been craving. But Dean has a secret of his own—one that threatens both Molly and the future of the child she loves more than life itself.


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