Author:Lee Tobin McClain
Publisher: Harlequin
Publication Date: August 2020
An unexpected delivery and fresh start. He needed only a
nanny…but in her he’s found so much more. Suddenly a father after his little
brother is abandoned on his doorstep, Corbin Beck has no idea how to care for a
toddler. Thankfully, former hometown party girl Samantha Alcorn is making a
fresh start as a live-in nanny. As Corbin bonds with little Mikey—and sparks
fly with Samantha—they begin to feel like a family. But Samantha’s secret could
change everything…
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Excerpt, CHILD ON HIS DOORSTEP by Lee Tobin McClain
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She let the water out of the sink, not looking at him now.
“I think you’re doing a great job,” she said. “It was just as much my fault as
yours. And didn’t you listen to what everyone else said? Parenting is a
challenge and you can’t help but screw up sometimes.”
“I guess.” He wasn’t used to doing things poorly or in a
half-baked way. He was used to working at a task until he could become an
expert. That had been a great approach in his career, where hard work and long
hours at the lab had helped him succeed, becoming one of the youngest faculty
members the university had ever hired.
He wasn’t arrogant about that; he knew that what-ever smarts
he had were a gift from God, that other people were smarter and that he’d been
incredibly fortunate in getting fellowships and teaching assistant jobs to pay
for his graduate work. That was what had allowed him to reach a position of
expertise in his field.
But it seemed that nobody was an expert when it came to
raising kids, not really.
“Mikey can be a handful, just like any other child,” she
said.
“He is, but I sure love him,” Corbin said. It was the first
time he had articulated that, and he realized it was completely true. He loved
his little brother as if the boy were his own son.
“I love him, too,” she said, almost offhandedly.
She just continued wiping down the counters, not acting like
she had said anything momentous, but her words blew Corbin away. She had an
amazing ability to love. Mikey wasn’t her child, nor her blood, but she felt
for him as if he were.
He got the vacuum cleaner and ran it over the kitchen floor,
cleaning up dog hair and crumbs, turning it off quickly when it sucked up a
little plastic spoon, then extracting it and starting it up again.
If he loved his little brother despite the boy’s issues and
whining and toddler misbehavior, could it be that he could love another adult
who had issues, too? He was definitely starting to care a lot for Samantha. Was
he growing, becoming more flexible and forgiving?
About the author:
USA TODAY bestselling author Lee Tobin McClain
watched Dr. Zhivago way too young and developed a lifelong passion for
angsty romance. When she's not writing, she's probably FaceTiming with her
college-age daughter, mediating battles between her goofy goldendoodle and her
rescue cat, or teaching aspiring writers in Seton Hill University's MFA
program. She is probably not cleaning her house. For more about Lee, visit her
website at www.leetobinmcclain.com.
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