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The man who brought us Travel Team and Summer Ball now throws open the deepest, darkest secret of a professional basketball player – a secret so deep and dark that he doesn’t know it himself. Yet.
Josh Cameron is the star player of the Boston Celtics, and he has a squeaky-clean image. Along comes a little English girl named Molly Parker, a girl with a natural gift for basketball, a girl whose mother (Josh’s one-time girlfriend) recently died of cancer. Molly knows something Josh doesn’t know: he’s her father. They’re both about to find out whether that’s going to be a good thing or not.
Josh’s first reaction is not to believe Molly’s story. As they spend more time together, Molly sees more and more why her mother didn’t want her to know her father. His life doesn’t really have room for her, or really anyone but himself and the game. His squeaky-clean image may not survive the news that he suddenly has a twelve-year-old daughter. Can all that be changed by one little girl who is desperate to have a family again? That’s what Molly wants to know.
Molly quickly grows on Josh Cameron’s friends and teammates. She has a foster family and a best friend rooting for her too. But she’s not taking any chances. She has an exit strategy in case the father-daughter thing doesn’t work out. Josh doesn’t know she is about to move to the West Coast with her foster parents, or that she is holding out a hope of staying in Boston with him. Whether he figures it out in time will be the stuff of a Christmas miracle in this parent-child romance with a twist of sports.
