The Real Mother: A Novel

A woman returns home to take care of her siblings and faces new challenges—and findsnew love—in this novel from a New York Times–bestselling author.

Sara Elliott has been forced to give up the life she's dreamed of to return home to Chicago and take charge of her sisters and brother. She finds a job and settles into the house she grew up in, building a life for ten-year-old Doug and teenagers Carrie and Abby.

But Sara has another brother, Mack, now twenty, who left home three years earlier. S...