Settling for More
(eBook)

Sometimes less really is more . . .The fifty-something year old Sandra and Marshall Campion are beginning to enjoy life with no children at home. Trips to Belize, fishing at the lake house with other couples, tailgating and season passes to college football games. Their youngest son has just graduated from college and has a new fiancée. Their oldest daughter is married but still bears an irrational grudge against her younger sister. Middle daughter, Maddie, dropped out of college at twenty and has been on a six-year journey, taking odd jobs to earn her keep. They haven't seen her in nearly five years.When Maddie arrives, unannounced, towing a four-year-old daughter they knew nothing about, the Campions are both thrilled and shocked. Shock turns to pleasant surprise as they accustom themselves to being new grandparents to the sweet, articulate child named Isabelle. Just when they convince their daughter to settle down in their home town, sibling rivalry rears its ugly head to threaten the peace and serenity of the entire family. So much so that the couple awakens one morning to find Maddie is missing. She's left behind two things: a note, and her child.Will she resolve her issues and come home to finish raising her daughter, or will the Campions have to start over and raise Izzy" themselves?