Fated Family

Book excerpt: Luck seems in short supply for homeless runaway Joanna. Living in a shed with no electricity or running water, she's cold, hungry, dirty, and desperate. She's not desperate enough to go back to the angry fists, boots, or whatever else Carlos might throw at her; and not desperate enough to go back to a mother who never really wanted her and barely acknowledges she exists. It's not the life she hoped for or dreamed of, especially now that she has a baby on the way, but it's her life, of her own choosing. She's going to have a family of her own, even if it is only her and her little one against the world. Sometimes, where luck fails, fate steps in.