The Wedding Vow

In 1996, Chris Naylor, a punter in the National Football League, flees Florida with his twenty-two month old child after the alcoholic-related death of his wife. Two years later, Chris retires from the NFL and moves back to his home town of Colorado Springs so his widowed dad can help him raise his beloved Hannah. At the fortieth anniversary and renewal of vows party of Chris' neighbors, he meets a childhood friend Allison Sinclair, who gets on better with Hannah than his deceased spouse ever did. Allison, a successful business executive, has written in her planner that she will be married by the new millennium. However, she wants the same love and respect her parents share for each other. She thinks she has found it in Chris and his precocious daughter. However, after a lousy marriage, Chris is very reluctant to repeat that travesty, leaving it up to the two women in his lives to prove him wrong. Readers will SWEAR that THE WEDDING VOW is a very pleasurable category romance. The warm characters grab reader interest, as they definitely seem real because they are completely developed. The story line is simply romantic fun that demonstrates the talent of Laura Abbot to scribe an entertaining novel that will leave the audience feeling quite good about themselves and their lives.Harriet Klausner