For Pete’s Sake - Linda Windsor

ISBN: 978-0-06-117138-3
Publisher: Avon Inspire
Published: April 2008
Pages:294 (Paperback)

From the Publisher
For Pete’s Sake is a remarkable story about the unlikely live between a grown-up tomboy and the millionaire next door.

Ellen Brittingham isn’t sure true live exists until she contracts to do the landscaping of the estate of the sophisticated widower next door, Adrian Sinclair. Adrian has it all—at least on the surface, He’s engaged to a beautiful woman who helped him build a successful business and he’ll soon have a mom for his troubled son Pete.

Yet, from the moment Ellen rescues a stranded Adrian on her Harley, his well-ordered world turns upside down, cracking his thin façade of happiness and revealing the void of faith and love behind it. Even more, his son seems to have his own sites set on Ellen – as his new mom.

As Ellen’s friendship grows with Pete, she realizes that his father is about to marry the wrong woman for the right reasons. And despite her resolve to remain “neighbors only” with the dad, the precocious boy works his way into her heart, drawing Ellen and Adrian closer. Close enough for heartbreak, for Pete’s sake!

But how can her heart think that Adrian Sinclair is the one when he’s engaged to a sophisticated beauty who is everything Ellen isn’t. When Ellen’s three best friends see she’s been bitten by the love bug, they jump into action and submit her to a makeover that reveals the woman underneath her rough exterior and puts her in contention for Adrian’s love.

But Ellen must ask herself whether she’s ready to risk the heart that she’s always held close. Will Ellen be able to trust that God brought this family into her life for a reason? Or will her fear of getting hurt cause her to turn away from God’s plan and her one true chance at love?

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I always love a good love story, and this was a good one. As a step mom, I struggled when the kids were little, to balance things out between my boys and my husband’s girls. I admired the way Ellen was able to connect with Pete, in his own special way, and that he always came first. This is what I tried to do with our children, but it wasn’t always that easy. Being “the other woman” in any sense of the word are different shoes to walk in. Even though Ellen didn’t see it in herself, she did it with dignity, beauty and grace, and thankfully Adrian was finally able to see that and let Ellen know just how much she meant to him.

Great read, and I am off to explore other works by Linda Windsor.