Finding Our Forever
Cora Kelly hired a private detective to find the mother who gave her up, and what she got back was a name and a place: Aiyana Turner, who runs New Horizons Boys Ranch in Silver Springs, California. Cora takes a one-year post as the ranch's art teacher, planning to observe, understand, and leave without ever saying what she is.
The plan does not survive Elijah Turner. Eli is Aiyana's adopted son and runs the ranch, and he can tell that Cora is holding something back. What starts as his suspicion becomes something neither of them intended, and the secret Cora is keeping gets heavier the closer they get.
Brenda Novak opens her Silver Springs series with a small-town contemporary romance built on found family, a woman looking for her origins, and a man who has spent his life being wary of people who want something.
An art teacher who takes a job at the boys' ranch run by the birth mother she has never met.
Aiyana's adopted son and the manager of New Horizons Boys Ranch.
Founder of the ranch and Cora's birth mother.