title: A Mom for Callie
author:  Laura Bradford 
description: Laura Bradford has spent much of her life moving around. After stints in New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Missouri, she's finally settled in a quiet suburb of New York City with her daughters. A graduate of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Laura worked as a newspaper reporter and freelance business writer before delving head first into her first love--fiction. Today, Laura writes both romance and mysteries.
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  Life is meant to be savored, but that’s not easy with no family, limited
  prospects and a past you’d rather not talk about.
  
  
  Still, Callie Smith doesn’t know how to feel when she discovers she has a
  brother and a sister—Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and
  privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn’t love being
  alone, but at least it’s safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the
  grand family home with her siblings and grandfather on the shores of Lake
  Washington, hoping just maybe this will be the start of a whole new life.
  
  
  But starting over can be messy. Callie and Keira fit in with each other, but
  not with their posh new lifestyle, leaving Malcolm feeling like the odd man
  out in his own home. He was clever enough to turn a sleepy Seattle mail-order
  food catalog into an online gourmet powerhouse, yet he can’t figure out how to
  help his new sisters feel secure. Beco