Deborah Gottselig

Elli's Choice Deborah Gottselig

Elli Bain's earliest childhood memories of the horrors of living on the streets with her drug-addicted, prostitute mother continue to haunt her into young adulthood. But unlike so many children who find their way into the foster system, Elli was one of the lucky ones. For she found a real Mom and Dad in Ruth and John Wells. And although, she was never officially adopted by the loving couple, she did recognize them as her parents and was eternally grateful for their selfless act of love. And although, her biological mother never regained custody of her daughter, she did come in and out of her life with big dreams and empty promises, which had always left Elli heartbroken and filled with feelings of being deserted all over again. After receiving her degree in nursing, Elli discovers her mother has cancer. During caring for Marissa, prior to her death, Elli also learns she was not the product of one of her mother's many clients, as she had always thought. But rather that her mother had actually been married, when Elli was born, to a small-town doctor by the name of Thomas Bain. And from an aged picture in the few personal belongings left by her deceased mother, it appeared this doctor had loved his daughter very much. Elli needed to know. Could finding her biological father finally fill her incessant need to belong and release the lock on her heart? The only way to know was to find him. Take the journey as Elli finds more than a loving father, but discovers the love of her life.