The Gift of Family

 Shirley J.                Adult Fiction          A well-to-do couple can't have kids and adopt a family

The Gift of Family by Mary Monroe   208 pages

A very easy read.   A sweet story.   Eugene and Rosemary Johnson are doing well in their lives.  Rosemary runs a successful nail salon in Beverly Hills, California and Eugene is a successful lawyer with a lustrous list of celebrity clients.   They live a comfortable life, they love each other and enjoy partying with the A-list crowd.   The one thing they have been trying years for is a family with heart wrenching results.  Then Rosemary is told she needs an emergency hysterectomy and their hopes are crushed as now she will be unable to bear children.   They luck into finding the woman that worked for Eugene's parents, the woman who raised him and his brother , who was such an asset to Eugene's family. This woman, Ethyl Perkins has been struggling working 2 jobs for years doing her best to provide for her great-grandchildren who were left with her to raise them when their mother and grandmother died in the mean streets.  Ethyl is approaching 70 years old, the new owner of her building is making her move because his daughter wants Ethyl's apartment.  Ethyl has no extra money for first and last month's rent somewhere else not to mention the security deposit which she is sure the new owner doesn't plan to refund her due to the remarks he's made about her 2 grandsons tearing up the place.  They hadn't but Ethyl saw where this was going.  Meeting up with Eugene and Rosemary and being offered the job of taking care of Rosemary during her recovery from her surgery is a God send.  Little do any of them know, yet, just what a God send it will turn out to be.   Good story.  Very light reading.  I recommend this book to anyone who loves romance, children and happy endings.