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

She considered the face of the girl who stared back at her from several angles, pulling at the skin under her eyes, examining the space between her teeth, until, finally assured that there was nothing terrible in her reflection, she filled the sink with warm water and began her daily routine.


It took an hour, and the insistent bleat of her phone once again, before Sally Schmidt registered that today was her day off and she had simply failed to mute her alarms after the excitement of the previous few days.


Chapter 26