When Genevieve Lucas left home, she swore she'd never return to her small town or dysfunctional family. She told no one she was pregnant and cut all ties. Five years later, however, she is dying and has only months to secure a new home for her daughter.

Walking out was easy, atoning for past wrongs is difficult, but transition her little girl to a man who never knew he was a father—impossible.

But sometimes love demands the impossible.

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If you haven't heard of Gina Holmes yet, you will. Affectionately referred to as the Barbara Walters of fiction, Gina Holmes founded Novel Journey, a blog known for its uncanny knack for getting literary greats like Walt Wangerin Jr, Geraldine Brooks, Noah Lukeman, Donald Maass, and rarely-interviewed Dean Koontz to share their secrets with aspiring authors. This May with the release of her debut novel, Crossing Oceans, she is proving she can hold her own.