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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

A hope undaunted : a novel

View full imageby Julie Lessman    (Get the Book)
It's the summer of 1929, and Katie O'Connor knows exactly what she wants: marriage to rich, rakish, albeit spoiled Jack Worthington, and a law career. When Jack and others in her circle of self-centered, privileged friends deliberately humiliate a soda jerk, Katie is embarrassed. Then she breaks curfew too many times, and her father sentences her to work as a summer volunteer at the Boston Children's Aid Society. Raised on the wrong side of the tracks, Luke McGee has worked his way through law school, and even though he's now an attorney, he fills in at the soda counter for a friend, only to become the brunt of Jack and the gang's cruelty. When Luke becomes assistant director of the Boston Children's Aid Society, his life becomes intertwined with Katie's, perhaps forever. A rich girl and a poor boy find that love can be the great equalizer in Lessman's engrossing tale, which has more awareness and sizzle between the hero and heroine than your average inspirational romance. This is the first book in the Winds of Change series. --Booklist