Hunter Cicero is a master glass artist striving to establish a hand-blown glass studio in Galveston, catering to the tourist trade. Brought up as a foster child, Hunt adopted a fellow female foster child as his sister. Jayne since died of cancer leaving four children with promises from Hunt that he would always look after them, financially and emotionally, even though she chose guardians for them with distant family. His apprentice, Gabi Romano, convinced Cicero to let her open the studio in her hometown, Eternity Springs, Colorado, instead. An artist needs happiness, peace and an inspiration to be a success. As hard as he works, he hopes this studio will help bring in the money to pay for his sister's medical bills and help with the children's expenses. seven-year-old Keenan, four-year-old Galen, nine-year-old Misty and two-year-old Daisy is all he has left of Jayne.

This suits Cicero as it will be closer to the children, now with the guardians, the Parnells, living in Denver. Dr. Rose Anderson has moved to Eternity Springs to be near her sister, Sage, who is also a nurse and owner of the town's art gallery. Rose isn't about to let her guard down and trust another man as her last fiancé, Brandon, deserted her at the first sign of learning she had cancer and leaving her to deal alone. Eternity Springs and her sister will help heal her body and her heart. Meeting Cicero isn't something she can deny herself and soon she is head over heels in love with the sexy, new artist. Cicero is devastated when the Parnell's back out of fostering the children and he finds himself the sole care taker. The closer he and Rose get and even with the town pitching in to help, Cicero still frets about making ends meet and doing justice to the children. Just when he is so in love with the kids, everything turns topsy- turvy and he is desolate and terrified at the thought of losing them. All he has now is his artistry and his love for Rose.

TEARDROP LANE is an absolutely wonderful emotional story that will literally tear your heart out. The thought of losing his children is a real tearjerker that certainly pulls at the heartstrings. The characters are determined people with secrets of the past to overcome. TEARDROP LANE is an Eternity Springs Novel that you will not want to miss. Grab your Kleenex because if this doesn't make your heart break and the tears flow, nothing will. It will be a long time before I forget TEARDROP LANE. Emily March is a real pro at breathing life into her stories and making you feel the characters' heartaches and losses as well as the deep love they share.

Book Summary

In Emily March’s new novel set in her beloved Eternity Springs, a woman who has given up on dreams of a family meets a man who needs her to complete his own. Town physician Rose Anderson hides a well of sadness behind her cheerful and capable professionalism. Heartbreak has only reinforced her belief that marriage and children aren’t in her future. Yet she’s a woman with a pulse—and when sexy, brooding artist Hunt Cicero shows up at her office with his young nephew, the sheer physical attraction he ignites in her is both exciting and unsettling. Hunt has an artist’s passionate temperament and a bachelor’s lifestyle. So when he becomes guardian to his sister’s children, he’s riddled with conflict—and in way over his head. Without Rose and her warm maternal instincts, he’d be lost. Still, she’s a woman who guards her own heart, and he’s a novice when it comes to commitment. Can the healing magic of Eternity Springs shine on this patchwork family and allow Hunt and Rose to trust that love is the fabric holding them together?