Book excerpt: Leah Griffin gave up a promising career in academia to care for her elder sister when she was paralysed in a car accident which killed her fiancE Philip Harrington. Their son Milo is left orphaned when her sister succumbs to her injuries eighteen months later, leaving Leah as his sole guardian. When Philip's parents demand that they be given custody of the child as biological grandparents Alex Petersen promises to help them fight Leah; but it does not take him long to discover he has not been given the full story, or, that Leah is not the gold digger portrayed by them.