This Beating Heart

WHAT IF THE FAMILY YOU WANT...
...ISN''T THE FAMILY YOU NEED?

''It was up to her now; everything was up to her;
she needed only to make a choice and step towards it,
out from the shadows and into the light.''

At forty-three, Christina Lennox thought her future was settled: marriage to Ed, children, a house of their own.

But this is not that future: her marriage has ended, fractured by the stress of ...