Ken Casper

Ward Roberts is dying of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. Lying still in his bed has given him time to think about his life and accomplishments. It also gives his wife of 25 years and their children an opportunity to examine their own lives and their relationships with their father.

This is the third book in the First Family of Texas series. Professor Gideon First has found the woman of his life, and the young widow has accepted his proposal of marriage. Life is good-until he learns that one of his old flames died recently in a car accident and has named him as the father of her baby girl. The DNA test confirms it's true. Lupe Amorado, his fianc e is understandable upset by the news, but she is furious when he tells her he's considering putting the child up for adoption. There goes love; there goes marriage. Gideon discovers he may be pushing the baby carriage alone.

"We can never escape our yesterdays. They make us who we are today." Like the young of every generation, Bram and Sarah Clyburn are convinced they are unique-that no one has ever felt what they feel for each other. Until Sarah's past threatens to destroy their marriage. When the newly weds announce they're splitting up, Bram's grandparents, Evvie and Edgar, have good reason to think it's a mistake. To prove it they reveal their shocking past and the secret that goes back sixty-five years to the hard times of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, the Great Depression and the Second World War. It was a time when desperation filled their lives and desperate measures threatened their love for each other. Will love be enough this time to save Bram and Sarah's marriage?