How do you tell a man there is something wrong with his child?
He wasn’t looking to love again. But what he got was a woman who shook his lonely bitter world upside down, and touched him in a way no other woman could.
Emily Nelson, a courageous young mother, ends a loveless, bitter marriage and strikes out on her own. She answers an ad for a cook and live-in caregiver to a three-year-old boy on a local ranch. Ranch owner Brad Friessen hires and moves in Emily and her daughter. But Emily soon discovers something’s seriously wrong with the boy, and the reclusive, difficult man who hired her can’t see the behavior and how delayed his son is. So Emily researches until she stumbles across what she suspects are the soft signs of autism. Now she must tell him, give him hope, and help him come to terms with this neurological disorder – to take the necessary steps to get his child the help he needs.
As their lives become intertwined, their attraction is unavoidable – a connection sparks between them. But just as they’re getting close, Brad’s estranged wife, Crystal, returns after abandoning the family two years earlier. Among the shock and confusion is one disturbing question Brad can’t shake: How does Crystal know so much of his personal business, the inner working of the ranch, and Emily’s relationship with his son?
Crystal must’ve had a plan, as she somehow gains the upper hand, driving a wedge in the emotional bond forged between Brad, Emily, and the children. The primary focus for care and therapy of three-year-old Trevor is diverted. The lengths to which Crystal will go, the lies, the greed, just to keep what’s hers, are nothing short of cold and calculating. Emily’s forced out of the house. Brad fights to save his boy, to protect what’s his, and struggles over his greatest sacrifice – Emily – and the haunting question: Has he lost her forever?
Unsettling I have a grandson with autism. It was painful reading that the woman “helping” the child with autism was sitting him in front of the tv all the time…and that she did the same thing with her daughter. I could relate to the tantrums and humming coming from the boy, but if you’re going to write about a child with autism, you should know fully what a day in their lives is truly like. The story was supposedly written about “The Forgotten Child” but the entire story mostly forgot about the…
The Forgotten Child The book was good but I would have liked it better if the author had spent more time exploring the autistic child’s world, their future as a family and how they were going to blend the child’s “normal” in with their daily lives. Too much of the book was taken up with getting rid of the current wife. I guess as I grow older I find the graphic sexual content in these type of books distracting from the heart of the story – the child and autism was the draw for me and I was disappointed that was…
accurate title Very accurate title for this book. There was very little in the way of focusing on Trevor’s autism and the supposed therapy for him. The book was more about an ill-tempered man who went from raging to having sex in a millisecond. The story was disjointed at times. For example, Emily was a klutzy, jumpy woman around Brad and in the next paragraph she’s letting him rip her clothes off. Huh? No segue at all. The author says the book has been proofread and edited, but it definitely needs another…