Stand by Your Manny — Amy Lane

The Mannies

Learning to trust and falling in love.

Sammy Lowell has his hands full juggling his music, college, some pesky health problems, and making the uncles who raised him proud. He needs help fulfilling his after-school duties with his siblings. Nobody can be in two places at once -- not even Sammy!

An injury puts Cooper Hoskins in a tough spot -- if he can't work, the foster sister he's raising can't eat. But years in the foster system have left Cooper short on trust, and opening up to accept help isn't easy.

Luckily, family intervenes -- Cooper needs a job so he can care for Felicity, and Sammy needs someone who can see past his illness to the wonderful things he has planned for his life. Each heals the damaged places in the other's heart. But falling in love is a big responsibility for young men deep in family already. Can the two of them get past their fear of the immediate future to see forever with each other?