Promises to Keep

February 15, 2005
Molly Boudreau is the pride of her father and sister, until she chucks her shining future as a pediatrician in Boston to provide a safe home for the infant son of a murdered patient. Spooked by the gangland-style killing, Molly bundles up baby Nicholas and heads for her tiny hometown of Glens Crossing, Indiana, intending to pass him off as her own. Enter Dean Coletta, recuperating wartime correspondent based for the last five years in Middle Eastern hot spots, who is trying to track down his sister's murderer and thinks Molly knows more than she is telling. Crandall deftly takes up where she left off in " The Road Home" (2004), with Lily and Clay now married and their son Riley experiencing his own romantic troubles. This heartwarming tale depicts typical midwestern small-town life, where everybody knows everyone else's business and is equally willing to meddle or extend a helping hand--and to close ranks against outsiders threatening one of their own.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2005, American Library Association.)