Her Unlikely Family

Her Unlikely Family
Missy Tippens

Take responsibility for his orphaned niece, yes. Raise her himself, no.A good boarding school was what the girl needed, not an uncle who was never home. But then Michael Throckmorton's niece ran away. And the big-hearted, beautiful diner waitress who'd taken her in wasn't letting her go so easily.Josie Miller had a few conditions for Michael. Oddly enough, he was willing to listen. Yet days later, why wasn't he hauling the teen back to school and himself back to the city? Could it be that an unlikely family was forming?

Her Unlikely Family

Missy Tippens

To my husband, Terry, who has read every word

I’ve ever written.

To my children, Nick, Tyler and Michelle,

who have cheered me along on this journey.

To my parents, Frank and Cellia Conley; my sister,

Mindy Winningham; and all my extended family

who love me no matter what.

And to God for giving me the stories.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Ted Kohn, Joni Kost, Kerry

Lipscomb and Beth McLear for research

assistance.

I owe so much to my critique group, Belinda

Peterson, Maureen Hardegree and Meg Moseley,

for hours of work on this manuscript.

I’m grateful to Georgia Romance Writers—

especially Anna DeStefano for lessons in

persistence and Sandra Chastain for first

recognizing my stories as inspirational romance.

Thanks to The Seekers for encouragement and

laughter. And to FHL, W.O.R.D. and the F.A.I.T.H.

bloggers for prayer and support.

Special thanks to Emily Rodmell and

Krista Stroever for making my dream

of publishing come true.