Books like Defy the Night by Lynn Leslie
Heidi Allan, a loving and caring mother, faces a life-and-death decision when her terminally ill infant nephew is removed from the hospital. Despite the advice to remove him from the pain, Heidi decides to sing him lullabies under the night sky as he dies in her arms. The story then follows the protagonist's journey as she confronts her brother, Luke Jefferson, who has known all along that he is his nephew's father, and is forced to punish him to the full extent of the law.
First publish date: 1991
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Lynn Leslie
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