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A One-of-a-Kind Family (Harlequin Super Romance)

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A lovely story about the specialness in all of us, and about how we shouldn't let anything, not even guilt or fear, stand in the way of working to reach our dreams. Especially when those dreams include falling in love!

Holly Jacobs is a funny writer!
In this book, her protagonist, Anna, is an idealistic, tender soul who will fight for those she works with. Her job is to teach living skills to adults who are mentally challenged. But for her, they aren't just clients. She cares deeply about helping them to be all they can be, despite loving guardians who sometimes try to baby and protect those who need to find their wings.
Enter one such brother, Liam, and the differing views of what love really means clash.
The story is well told. The 'different but special' brother, Colm, is charming and his voice is very much like a couple of real people I've known and loved.
The prickly and over-protective brother is a challenge, but not one Anna is willing to give up her sense of purpose for.
Well written, well plotted and a joy to read.

Life-skills coach Anna Chapel is excited that the Sunrise Foundation has a home in Whedon, Pennsylvania. The not for profit group's motto is "Helping Exceptional People Lead Exceptional Lives".

Her newest client is developmentally-disabled Colm Franklin. His caretaker twin brother Liam assumes that Sunrise Foundation will provide his sibling with an adult sitter as he has some business to attend to. Anna believes Colm can do so much more, but Liam fears his brother will only be hurt by her encouragement; all he wants for his sibling is for Colm to have "normalcy" since their parents died two years ago. As Anna pledges to enable Colm to become all he can be starting with pouring his own drink into a glass as he has always been coddled, she also falls in love with his skeptical computer programmer brother.

This is a terrific timely contemporary romance that looks deeply at the needs of special adults although Liam's working out of his home is too convenient as caretakers don't always have that option. Colm and his two new friends, Gilly and Josh, make the tale as they teach Anna, Liam, octogenarian Mrs. Albright and the reader that they may take longer but are capable of not "shmoosing" the eggs when they pack bags at Mr. Keller's grocery store.

Harriet Klausner