Completed!!!!!!!
She starting over, again...
Fourteen-year-old, Zoe Whitman has been bouncing around the foster care system for half her life. When she is kicked out of yet another group home, she almost gives up hope. Yet, just as things seem to be at their darkest, she is placed with the Bradley's, a big, loving family, full of love and laughter. Still haunted by her past, she struggles to accept their kindness. Over time Zoe begins to settle in with the Bradley's, and starts to wonder if she has finally found a home. But just as she begins to trust them, her past comes back to destroy her new-found happiness.
A story about 14 year old Randall Clarkson/Gardiner, the adopted son of Thomas and Alice Gardiner, and of how they took in another foster child, Ester...only to have her taken away, at aged 4, when Randall's unfinished papers cause her to be matched into another family. Randall struggles with feelings of guilt, as well as the overall grief of losing his beloved sister. When a chance appears which might allow them to keep her, after all, will they succeed? And if they fail, would they be able to recover from the loss, without any bitterness afterwards? Would they still want to adopt children, in spite of the risk of pain?