These nine stories look at the bonds that occur when circumstances, bloodlines and social situations toss us together.

• What happens when a baby is thrown over a cliff to be rescued by a lonely bachelor?
• What does a farm girl running away from her overbearing family find when she meets a friendly, but scarred stranger on the bus?
• How can a scraggly lost dog show a man what to do about losing his job and his girlfriend?

From the pets we adopt to the people who become our lovers and friends, this book, which was created by relatives from the Swope family, explores connections.

Sharon ran her local hometown newspaper The Edgerton Earth with husband Robert W. Swope for many years and wrote a popular local column for that paper. She always wanted to write fiction, so at age eighty-two, she sat down at a computer and started writing. She is now in her nineties and still passionate about words.