title: Raising Hope: One womans journey of courage and determination in overcoming grim odds to create her family
author:  Yvonne Sanders 
description: Yvonne Sanders has been writing most of her life, cutting her writing teeth on educational publications, mostly Sciences. Her second coming as a writer is inspired, indeed driven, by her other life as a mother and school teacherin her own words, There are so many wonderful, intriguing and funny stories to draw upon, it is simply impossible not to commit some reincarnation to paper. As well as general adult fiction, Yvonne writes childrens fiction and short stories.
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  Take a Chance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  Grant
  
  
  
  
  
  Why was I here? What was the fucking purpose? Had I gotten this bad? Really?
  In the past, I’d been able to shake her loose and walk away. Nannette had been
  my go-to fuck for years, but then she’d gotten needy. And I’d liked it.
  Somehow, she had managed to get under my skin. I had wanted to be wanted—I was
  that pathetic. My dad rarely called me; my mom had decided she preferred
  French models over me years ago.
  
  
  
  
  
  I was screwed the hell up.
  
  
  
  
  
  It was time I let this go. Nan had needed me for a time when she felt like she
  was losing Rush, her brother and safe place, to his new life with his wife and
  child. Not that Rush wouldn’t welcome her with open arms—it was just that she
  was such a bitch. All she had to do was accept Rush’s wife, Blaire. That was
  it. But the stubborn woman wouldn’t do it.
  
  
  
  
  
  Mine had been the arms she’d run into, and like a fool I had opened them up
  for her. Now, all I had was a lot of damn drama 