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These nine stories look at the bonds that occur when circumstances, bloodlines and social situations toss us together.

• What happens when a baby is thrown over a cliff to be rescued by a lonely bachelor?
• What does a farm girl running away from her overbearing family find when she meets a friendly, but scarred stranger on the bus?
• How can a scraggly lost dog show a man what to do about losing his job and his girlfriend?

From the pets we adopt to the people who become our lovers and friends, this book, which was created by relatives from the Swope family, explores connections.

Sharon ran her local hometown newspaper The Edgerton Earth with husband Robert W. Swope for many years and wrote a popular local column for that paper. She always wanted to write fiction, so at age eighty-two, she sat down at a computer and started writing. She is now in her nineties and still passionate about words.

Genilee has more than forty years of experience as a writer/editor and manager of magazines, newsletters and many other forms of the written word. The joy in her life, however, has been fiction writing. Parente, co authored The Fate Series with her mother and is working on several books of her own.

Allyn has used the vivid imagination she was born with to create children's books. She has many books published and has also been published in several children's magazines. Allyn began writing in 2009 and had her first picture book The Pea in Peanut Butter published in 2011.