Author(s): Jacquelyn Mitchard

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Where can a woman turn when her life threatens to overwhelm her ability to keep her own children safe?

Julieanne Gillis is pretty good at the business of living - so good she advises the clueless and the lovelorn through a weekly newspaper column. So when her husband of twenty years, Leo, deserts her, she is mystified.

Suddenly, Julie is alone, raising three children and experiencing alarming physical symptoms that could be the precursor of a serious, chronic illness. Her best friend, her offbeat son, Gabe, and her lovely but self-centred daughter, Caroline, become Julie's caretakers - wounding her pride and increasing everyone's distress.

Gabe and Caro take it upon themselves to search for their absent father before it is too late. But could what they discover about Leo be more devastating than their mother's deteriorating health? first published 2005.