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

“Jude said that, ah, that Charlie might think that he’s a girl.”


Marta looked at her sharply and she wasn’t sure how to interpret the other woman’s expression, wasn’t sure if she was angry or embarrassed, protective or sad. And who are you to blame her, Sally Schmidt?she thought to herself. She’d never been a mother; she’d never even really had that much contact with children, save for the ones that came into the library and made a noise or her two younger cousins, and she wasn’t sure that either of those really counted.


Chapter 20