Last Family Standing

For readers of Christian women's fiction, Last Family Standing brings Monica Stanton the reunion she had long stopped letting herself hope for. Twenty-five years after she gave up a baby girl for adoption, her daughter, Jessica, comes back into her life, and she arrives with a catch: she will meet her birth mother, but only with the cameras rolling on a reality TV show.

Monica would rather chew glass than go on television, yet she will swallow her pride and a few less appetizing things for the chance to reconnect. Getting to know her grown daughter while competing on a remote island is hard enough; it gets harder when Jessica's long-lost birth father turns up, and Monica finds herself drawn to the show's charming host. The emotions, accusations, and old regrets make for irresistible television, but they could also tear the family apart before it has a chance to begin.

Last Family Standing by Jennifer Allee is a bestselling author of Christian women's fiction. She writes the adoption story at the heart of this novel from her own experience, giving it a hard-won authenticity, and offers readers and book groups a warm, funny, emotionally honest story about family found and family chosen.