Doing Good by Pamela Morsi

Jane Lofton is a Realtor with a wealthy husband, entree to the club, a beautiful daughter in college and a busy and sucessful life. Unfortunately her husband spends most of his time at the golf course and the rest of it having an affair with a blonde half of Jane's age and her daughter doesn't speak to her and she doesn't have what you'd call friends, but you can't have everything, right? She's almost able to convince herself that she's content and ignore the niggling doubts.

Then she has a bad accident and is this close to death and makes a Very Serious Promise. If God rescues her she'll spend the rest of her life doing good.

When a frail old man from the nearby nursing home runs barefoot to her car and cuts her free from it she's not sure if he's sent by God or it's just a coincidence but she's made a promise so she sets out to fulfill her side of it. Unfortunately it's not as easy as it sounds.

I picked this book up because doing good is a theme in the Gabriel novel I'm writing. Charity has reincarnated for the specific purpose of doing good but can't quite get the hang of it. I know writers who refuse to read anything that might be like what they're reading but I've had trouble with writing something, then turning on the television and seeing the very scene I just wrote enacted on the X-Files so I like to err on the side of caution and read up on the competition so to speak. Luckily for me this book has very little in common with mine.

It was a fun read and quite well done except for one thing that drove me nuts. The gentleman who pulls Jane from her convertible, Chester by name, clearly has a particular ailment and Jane just never notices. It's kind of an important part of the book and maybe she just never ran across it before but it's hard for me to believe she could be that clueless.

If stuff like that doesn't bother you, or you think you could be like me and try and ignore it, then pick up this book. It's rather sweet and charming.