
Where the Heart Is
For the Sake of Her Child/Child of Her Heart/Desperately Seeking Dad (Love Inspired Novella Collection)
Fore the sake of her child - Imagine losing your six month old son one night after you entrust him into someone else's care. Imagine coming home from work to a dark house, then searching for the next seven years, praying...hoping...when everyone else gives up. Imagine coming home one night and finding a man on the porch informing you that your son, the one you lost seven years before, is safe, and that HE has had them the entire time... An unlikely paring between Garth and Amanda happens when she is forced to marry him to save the life of her sick child. Through her son, the two begin falling in love. But where Garth's past hurts and loss of faith in God drive a wedge between being able to make this a true marriage? Will Jason recover from his illness, or where his sickness become worth, halting any sense of happiness for either one of his parents? Child of her heart - The honeymoon is over when Sonya Dixon's husband makes her choose between him and her unborn child. Now, desperate and alone, Sonya fears her life is over.Then strong, dependable Daniel Massie offers his friendship and shows her the way to the Lord. And soon Sonya knows her life is just beginning. Desperately seeking Dad - Anne, a Philly lawyer, rented a room to a pregnant girl with an unknown heart problem and ended up dying. But before her death, she made Anne promise her to raise her baby. Now Anne has to go to court for the adoption. Except she must find the father and have him sign the papers. So Anne goes to Bedford to get the police chief Mitch Donovan to sign. The only problem he swears that he is not the dad. So together they must hunt for the dad quietly.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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What the reading experience may hold
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Romance · Fiction
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Dark tone · Steady pace
Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.
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Readers looking for a substantial, immersive commitment with room for a world or argument to unfold.
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A quick reading snapshot
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3737-8524-7
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL9361614M
A more thoughtful way into this book
This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.
Best when you want to settle into a longer reading experience.
Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
- How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
- Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?
Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.







