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

This was the routine; this was how they ended the day every day, not because she distrusted him or she considered the business of turning keys and setting alarms beneath her, but because it was the way things were between them. Mister Mo dealt with the day-to-day business of the shop, and Ayesha Swanson dealt with the merchandise and the suppliers and the internet and everything that implied.


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