Tomorrow's Wish for Love

Tomorrow's Wish For Love

a contemporary romance by Diana Stout

     School teacher Marion Winter retreats to the small town in Georgia where she was raised to rest and regroup after a recent double-edged trauma. She is determined to rebuild her shattered life, make a success of her new house cleaning service, Maid Marion, and care for her widowed, ailing father. There must be a reason to go on—if only she can find it.

     Enter John Dalton, political cartoonist and baseball coach, a man with a heart who is looking to help the children of the community grow and succeed by renovating a vacant field—right next door to her dad's home—turning it into a place where kids can go to play and learn, families can come together, the community can thrive.

.    Marion is organized, quietly determined, and intensely reserved. John is out going, caring, and devoted to helping young people become the best they can be. For the first time in months she has something to fight for: mounting a campaign to prevent the havoc a sports field will wreak on the older, established neighborhood where she was raised. Spotlights after dark? Loud speakers? Litter? Noise? No no no.

     With determination and patience, John and his “kids” turn things around. Almost overnight a new sense of life infuses the air. A former blighted, weed choked eye sore is now green and lush and attractive. Families pull together to support the children in a new sense of community. Everyone is happy, thriving, excited.

     Everyone except Marion who is now faced with a choice of staying in place or making changes by confronting past traumas. John is there, at her side, showing her there are alternatives to every problem and often those alternatives can be better than the original.

     This sweet romance shows us how pre-conceived ideas and failure to communicate due to fear and shame can be the ruin of something momentous before it has a chance to bloom and grow.

On a scale of 1—5, Tomorrow's Wish For Love deserves a 4.5.

Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews