Chasing Down a Dream: A Heartwarming African American Small Town Romance About Foster Care, Family, and Love in the Blessings Series
About Chasing Down a Dream: A Heartwarming African American Small Town Romance About Foster Care, Family, and Love in the Blessings Series
NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel about what really makes a family. Theres never a dull day in Henry Adams, Kansas. Tamar July has never had a great relationship with certain members of her family.
In fact, shed characterize it as a hate/hate relationship. But when her cousin calls her with the news that shes dying and wants Tamar to plan the funeral, shes shocked but is willing to drop everything for her. After a horrendous storm, Gemma finds a young boy and his little sister walking on the side of the road.
She takes them in, and quickly falls in love with the orphaned siblings. But when Gemma contacts Social Services to try to become their foster mother, shes told a white woman cannot foster African-American children. In the midst of these trials, Jack and Rocky are trying to plan their wedding.
The entire town comes together to lend a helping hand.