contemporary

A touching story about a grieving mother, a teenage runaway, and an eccentric clairvoyant who brings them together in a small Colorado mountain town. A gentle tale about loss, healing, and the bonds between mothers and children.

Susan Wiggs' 2001 contemporary romance about Michelle Turner, who at seventeen was sent to her Hollywood-icon father's Montana ranch, fell for the ranch hand Sam McPhee, got him fired and his family destroyed when her father found out, and fled to Seattle pregnant - and who returns to Montana seventeen years later to donate a kidney to her dying father, with the rebellious teenage son Sam doesn't know about in the passenger seat.