Keeping Sunny Safe by Mariella Starr
Sunnydae Brightman is her mother’s daughter. Everyone says she is a dead ringer for her, even though she is not wild and uninhibited. Sunny has another set of DNA running through her, the genes that make her responsible and self-sacrificing. Discovering as an adult that she was a victim of custodial kidnapping has shaken her, but her loyalties are still to the woman who raised her.
With only a photograph in hand of a father she has never known, Sunny takes herself and her two sisters on a journey of discovery. She spent the first part of her life on the run, a quest she had been convinced was to keep her safe. The second part of her life had been on the fringes of strict religious and polygamy practices – again, it was her mother’s way of keeping her safe.
She has now thrust herself into a third phase of her life, a new environment, and a very different lifestyle. She has a father she has not known for seventeen years, but who wants to step in and be a father to her. She has relatives, some of whom she likes, and some of whom she despises. It is all very confusing; stifling and enlightening at the same time.
Now is not the best time to find the man of her dreams and her desires. Especially when he is a man who believes in the same principles Sunny wanted to leave behind her. She had left a community she believed to be the discipline capital of the world. Only now, she has discovered there are dominant men everywhere and she has run straight into a new batch of them. The one she has fallen for has no problem setting her backside on fire.
Sunnydae Brightman is her mother’s daughter. Everyone says she is a dead ringer for her, even though she is not wild and uninhibited. Sunny has another set of DNA running through her, the genes that make her responsible and self-sacrificing. Discovering as an adult that she was a victim of custodial kidnapping has shaken her, but her loyalties are still to the woman who raised her.
With only a photograph in hand of a father she has never known, Sunny takes herself and her two sisters on a journey of discovery. She spent the first part of her life on the run, a quest she had been convinced was to keep her safe. The second part of her life had been on the fringes of strict religious and polygamy practices – again, it was her mother’s way of keeping her safe.
She has now thrust herself into a third phase of her life, a new environment, and a very different lifestyle. She has a father she has not known for seventeen years, but who wants to step in and be a father to her. She has relatives, some of whom she likes, and some of whom she despises. It is all very confusing; stifling and enlightening at the same time.
Now is not the best time to find the man of her dreams and her desires. Especially when he is a man who believes in the same principles Sunny wanted to leave behind her. She had left a community she believed to be the discipline capital of the world. Only now, she has discovered there are dominant men everywhere and she has run straight into a new batch of them. The one she has fallen for has no problem setting her backside on fire.
Sunnydae Brightman is her mother’s daughter. Everyone says she is a dead ringer for her, even though she is not wild and uninhibited. Sunny has another set of DNA running through her, the genes that make her responsible and self-sacrificing. Discovering as an adult that she was a victim of custodial kidnapping has shaken her, but her loyalties are still to the woman who raised her.
With only a photograph in hand of a father she has never known, Sunny takes herself and her two sisters on a journey of discovery. She spent the first part of her life on the run, a quest she had been convinced was to keep her safe. The second part of her life had been on the fringes of strict religious and polygamy practices – again, it was her mother’s way of keeping her safe.
She has now thrust herself into a third phase of her life, a new environment, and a very different lifestyle. She has a father she has not known for seventeen years, but who wants to step in and be a father to her. She has relatives, some of whom she likes, and some of whom she despises. It is all very confusing; stifling and enlightening at the same time.
Now is not the best time to find the man of her dreams and her desires. Especially when he is a man who believes in the same principles Sunny wanted to leave behind her. She had left a community she believed to be the discipline capital of the world. Only now, she has discovered there are dominant men everywhere and she has run straight into a new batch of them. The one she has fallen for has no problem setting her backside on fire.
