The Daughter — Christina Wolfer

The Daughter Abandoned by her mother at birth, social worker Katie Delynski believes love and relationships are learned-and she hasn't learned anything good about either. She avoids both love and relationships by focusing on her career and by getting prostitutes off the street. But when a man she's never met commits suicide and names her as his daughter, leaving her millions of dollars and a family full of new relatives, things change. Her new family invites her into their lives, stirring a sense of belonging she is afraid to believe in. Determined to put her windfall to good use, Katie buys an old building for a women's shelter. Her newfound family puts her in touch with Conner Patterson, a family friend, to help rehab the building. As work progresses, Katie finds herself falling in love with Conner, but fear keeps her from acting on her feelings. It soon becomes apparent, though, that Conner may be her only hope for survival, when someone hurt by her father's past indiscretions is determined to make Katie pay for her father's sins.