Yet another Book Report.

posted by Chuck Ayers
Book Report
 
I am not one who necessarily chooses books because of a possible Romance in the story’s  scenario.  No, not me.  But it happens by accident once in a while.  So this is one of those occasional whiles.
So this successful musician who is often on the road and away from his wife and child, comes to an abrupt halt when his wife is killed in a mass shooting at a shopping mall.  Faced with the daunting fact he still has a child at home needing his full attention.  Therefore he quits the road band and starts a small construction business in order to spend more time at home with his grade school daughter.  A daughter who is becoming less and less interested in school and a problem for the father to deal with.  In the meantime the child’s deceased mother’s birth mother locates the adopting father by Email and wishes to establish a connection with the granddaughter.  And it gets complicated from there.
Title: A Spanish Sunrise, by Boo Walker, family fiction2022. 
 
Library of Congress annotation:
“Adjusting to the death of his wife hasn’t been easy on Baxter Shaw—or on their eight-year-old daughter, Mia. Baxter has left his band and abandoned his dreams to focus on being a single father, but it’s not enough: Mia’s exhibiting escalating behavioral problems. And neither has been able to face the past head-on…until the past reaches out to them. After surprising results from a DNA test, Baxter and Mia journey to southeastern Spain to connect with their mysterious roots. Staying in a centuries-old villa on a renowned olive oil estate, they come to know the family they never realized they had, including a woman whose strength and passion for the estate remind Baxter of the love he lost—and that it’s not too late to rekindle his own dreams. For Baxter and Mia, it’s a healing season in Spain, and the romance of the culture awakens a new outlook on life. But when long-simmering family secrets surface and the estate’s fate is called into question, Baxter must choose to let go of the past if he ever hopes to find love and live again.”
 
Summary: Not sure why I chose this book but I did like it.  It was all because of you romance fans, and it is full of it.  Lots of hugging and kissing but no hard-core sex.