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Beverlly's "blended famiily" has gotten to the point where she and her husband feel ready to try to have a child together--someone who will belong to all of them from the beginning. Her young son has a loving relationship with his new stepfather,and her relationship with her stepchildren has grown stronger. The time seems right. Struggling with infertility, they eventually get more than they bargained for. In the meantime, Beverly is having difficulty getting along with a couple of members of the extended family, and she wonders if the challenges ever end. The experts say it takes five to seven years for a step family to get past their adjustment phase to a relatively smooth-working system, and Beverly wonders--Are We There Yet?
Beverly grabbed justin by the arm. "Come with me." She headed toward the front of the bus. Justin watched in bewilderment and dismay as she grasped the metal rail and ascended the steps. With a sign of relief, Beverly saw that the bus driver was a woman. Apologetically and politely, she began. "Ma'am, I'm really sorry about this. I'm in labor and I need . . ." The cramping started again. There was no time to beat around the bush. Beverly drew in her breath and then exhaled. Before she drew another breath, she said forcefully, "I'm hijacking this bus. I need to get to the hospital." | |  | | Brotherly Love
Beverly Smithson grew up with all brothers. She gets along better at college with the guys next door than she does with her female roommates. When friendship turns to romance with Steve, her jogging buddy, she thinks this might be it, but there is something Steve isn't telling her . . .
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Karen Donaldson is a divorced LDS grocery store clerk who wins big in the lottery. She turns her ward upside down with her business ventures and charitable activities, making a difference in the lives of people who never expected someone like Karen to be their benefactress. It will tickle your funny bone and twang your heart strings.
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Beverly Crandall has struggled to "pull the handcart" alone since the death of her husband, Dave, several years before. Now she is faced with a different dilemma. For a couple of years she has been dating her widowed dentist, but things get a little confused when she meets Bob, the widowed brother of a member of her ward. He owns a ranch in Texas, and is only in town for a brief visit, but it is long enough to stir things up.
Faced with a choice between two men, Beverly realized the time has come to choose. Many new experiences await her as she acquired a teen-age stepson and young adult stepdaughter. She also struggles for her own identify in the shadow of her late husband's wife. Along the way, she encounters foes and find friends in her struggle to Push On.
"I think you two would probably get along pretty well, much as it pains me to admit that my wife might be right," Stan admitted. "I say that if you want to meet Beverly, forget Carolyn, because if she gets poking around it in, she'll just mess it up anyway. Beverly goes by this way every morning walking her little boy to school, and then she goes jogging around the neighborhood. She's got brown hair, about to her shoulders, and she's usually wearing navy blue sweats. The little guy is a towhead, blond like his dad was, I imagine. I usually see her on my way to work."
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Beverly and David have welcomed a new baby boy into their lives. Suddenly the future is changed when Dave dies in a hit-and-run accident. Devastated, Beverly does her best to cope with being a young widow and single parent. She finds she doesn't really fit anywhere--not with the older widows, not with divorced women, and not with married people.
Bolstered by her faith, she carries on. Simultaneiously helped and hindered by the well-meaning efforts of others, she longs for the day when she will no longer by the "ward service project." Eventually she reluctantly re-enters the dating scene. After enduring her allotment of blind-dates-from-hell, she runs into an old college boyfriend who is divorced and fighting for custody of his three daughters. They struggle to make their relationship work, as both of them face their own Unfinished Business.
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