Category: Reviews Type: Fiction
Copyright: May 23, 2013
When a woman has a baby in the back of a cab, the driver becomes involved.
Jed Leida enjoys his job as a taxi driver as he pays his way through law school. He picks up a lot of interesting people and drives them to locations all over New York. But when pregnant Sadie Walker jumps into his cab one morning, he instantly feels a connection with her as he looks into her eyes through the rear view mirror.
After a few moments of their drive, however, Sadie goes into labor and has her baby right there in the back of his cab. When Sadie is carted off to the hospital without Jed ever catching her name, he figures that is the end of their story, but he simply can’t let go.
Once they re-connect, their feelings begin to grow but then, the baby’s father enters the picture. Can they overcome past secrets and find the love that God meant for them to have with one another?
Excerpt
Sadie Walker knew she had pushed herself too far. She hadn’t been in the city for very long and she simply wanted to see what was around her small studio apartment so that she knew what her options were later on. She hadn’t been trying to speed anything up. In fact, she would have been happy had the baby waited another week…or another month for that matter. She certainly wasn’t ready for his or her arrival.
Sadie wasn’t sure if she was ever going to be ready, but none of that mattered. The baby was ready and that was that. And now here she was, blocks from her apartment, without a phone or anyone really to call in the middle of the largest city in the country with sudden urgent contractions nearly taking her to her knees.
She took a minute to thank God that New York was exactly where she was. Because had she been in a city any smaller, the cabs might not have been so readily available. She watched a few rush past, their lights off indicating they already had a passenger. She took a few steps and tried to breathe in and out the way all of the books told her to do it.
Another contraction hit and she grabbed her bulging belly and slightly bent over. She realized that had she not been in New York, perhaps someone would have been concerned about her. Perhaps someone would have even stopped and asked if she needed help. To which she would have adamantly said yes. But Sadie wasn’t used to asking for help and she knew this was something she had to do on her own. It was simply the way it was.
As the contraction subsided, she raised her arm high into the air, slowly tilting it back and forth to let the upcoming cabs know that she was in need of a ride. She put a smile on her face so that no one would get wind of her predicament and pass her by.
“Lord,” she prayed under her breath, “I need you now more than ever.”
The cab that pulled over looked bright and clean and the driver leaned back and opened the rear door for her.
Sadie collapsed into the backseat gratefully. She wasn’t sure she could have stood on that sidewalk any longer had she tried.
“Where to, miss?” the friendly driver asked, glancing at her in the rearview mirror.
“I’m…” Sadie began as another contraction began to tighten her belly. She breathed in and out quietly so as not to alarm her driver. She stared at the rearview mirror to ensure that he wasn’t watching her, waiting for her answer. “I’d like to go to the hospital,” she said as calmly as possible.
The man squinted at her as he met her eyes and then turned on his signal and edged his way back out into traffic.
Sadie sighed with relief. Traffic was slow, but she had a ride now. She was on her way to the hospital and even though she was going to have to go through it all alone, she was going to be okay. There were going to be doctors and nurses and interns and plenty of people to keep her company. Everything was going to be just fine.
Professional Reviews
Fun easy read
This book starts with an intensity that keeps you on the edge of your seat!
A short read, (I read it in one evening) this is a sweet Christian story that reminds us that you never know where you'll meet your next best friend or your lifelong partner! I love the prayers in this book and the way the characters trust God despite their situations!
I just bought a second book by the author! Hoping it's just as good!
enjoyable
One of the most enjoyable books I have read. Christian faith, values and love. I started the book in the afternoon and finished it that same evening. It was that hard to put down.
wonderful
This was a wonderful story of faith. How when we put God in charge our lives how things do work out. How people touch our lives even a taxi driver.
