Fireside

If you're like me and have no love partner, I guess there's no law in reading and thinking about romance and love. The characters in Susan Wiggs' book Fireside are people of substance and character. There is a twelve-year-old boy who also is a major character. He is sent by his mother to live with his biological father, whom he has never seen, after his mother is caught up in an I.C.E. raid and gets deported to Mexico. All the people for whom the reader is cheering come out well in the end.