Anyone who knows me knows that I was and still am a fan of the Everlasting Love tag that Harlequin puts on one SuperRomance a month. For the month of February this tag went on WHAT FAMILY MEANS by Geri Krotow.

When I sit down with an Everlasting Love book I don't truly know what sort of read I'm going to get, I only know that it will be one that has my emotions going from laughing to crying, like a tennis ball going back and forth across a net. WHAT FAMILY MEANS was no exception.

Will and Debra Bradley are an unlikely couple not only because of their very different upbringings, but also because they are a mixed race couple. Their marriage has managed to endure not only family pressures but societal ones that one can only imagine unless they have lived through those experiences themselves.

As it must life is once again evolving for the Bradleys and they're about to be grandparents. However, their daughter is somewhat estranged from her husband, and Debra being the person she is, worries that their daughter Angie might not realize how important family is, and thus the reflection of their lives begins. Debra hopes that showing Angie what all her parents had to overcome to have a long successful marriage will help Angie to realize the love she has for her own growing family.

Never once does the author force her own personal opinion about the right or wrongness of races marrying, but rather does a skillful job of showing a family dealing with life's pressures, and adapting as one must in order to get along in the world.

WHAT FAMILY MEANS was the second book I've read by Geri Krotow, and I hope I have many more to look forward to in the future.