Family Tree
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Last published Sat, Aug 29, 2015
Meet Yvette Donovan, 32 year old single mom of five adopted her children Andrew, Limbani, Roselia, Ernst, and Minako. Five kids from five completely different worlds but she's brought them together. She has spent her whole life doing things her own way and that means not getting tied down to a guy.
Meet Ivan Olander, 33 year old retired Marine who is now working in an adoption agency helping kids get hopefully a better childhood than he had. When an older worker dies of a stroke he gets assigned to the biggest case he's had yet. To him Yvette Donovan is just a name on a file looking to adopt until a gorgeous woman walks into his office with five kids and everything changes.
Yvette meets Ivan and, much to her dismay, can't help but feel drawn to him in a way that hasn't happened since highschool.
Will they be able to work together or what?
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