Jude Calohan has been keeping his head down for years. In the quiet town of Bower Bliss, Texas, he has tried to be a good man, a good father, tried not to think too much about his relationship with his own father ... and yet despite this, in the gentle autumn of an uneventful year, Jude Calohan soon finds his relationship with both his eldest child and his own identity as a father called into question.<br><br>Amidst the sleepy apple groves of small town America, will Jude Calohan be able to keep his family together while his eldest child Charlie discovers the confidence to make one of the biggest choices of their young life?

Love Among Strangers

What could he have done to have elicited the woman’s attention? What possible course of action had he taken to engage her interest?


Struggling not to think of the matter, trying not to feel her gaze as he headed towards the exit, he took a wrong step and stumbled forward, pushing against the shape of one of the older boys ahead of him in pursuit of the exit.


Jason Danielson turned with an expression of impatience and dislike, a flash of anger crossing his face as he looked down at the younger boy.


“Why don’t you watch where you’re going, you little brat?” he snarled, half walking, half stalling, edging sideways towards the school doors, and, in the process, reminding Rowan of something not exactly unlike a crab in his movement.


“Sorry,” the boy mumbled, looking down at his feet whilst all the time trying not to lose momentum as the wave of people behind him pushed him forward.


Chapter 15