Eden Hall is a fictional boys' foster home in an old residential neighborhood on the north side of Chicago that houses boys aged 6 to 18 who have not found success in family foster homes. The hundred year old brick building is wedged among cookie-cutter bungalows in a working class neighborhood that operates as a small community of mostly Irish-American families who support and encourage each other.
The Dalton family, living next door to Eden Hall raising their granddaughter, Mary Alayna Dalton, took young boys from Eden Hall into their home to foster over the years and helped the administrator whenever he had a frightened new boy or a sick child needing extra attention. These circumstances made for a large warm family with dozens of older and younger brothers surrounding Alayna as she grew up.
The Eden Hall Series begins with Alayna trying to carry on with her grandparents' good work after their passing and adjusting to being the new head of the household. With limited resources, they bond as a family and meet the demands of financial survival by creating a rock band to generate extra income, playing in the local neighborhood pub. As she struggles with the responsibilities of helping young men learn to live independently in a family setting, she tries to maintain her professional daytime persona as the assistant manager of a security company. Fearing no one would understand her household arrangment outside of the neighborhood network, she secrets each part of her life from the other, but her secrets were bound to get out some day...
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Finding Eden By day, Mary Alayna Dalton is a successful Chicago professional who is being considered for a promotion to the top position in her company. By night, she shares her home with six young men who grew up at Eden Hall, a boys' foster home, and performs with them in their band that plays at the local pub. The only thing missing in her life is a loving relationship with someone accepting of her whole life.
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Saving Eden When Eden Hall's long time administrator retires and the boys' foster home is threatened by possible closure, Ryan Holt steps in as administrator. Growing up next door to Eden Hall rather than inside didn't keep him from feeling it was a part of him. The job was demanding but lonely until Ryan wins a national award for his work and the Chicago Tribune sends a reporter, TJ McCord, to do a story on his success. He finds it is more challenging to find success with Taylor than it was with Eden Hall, but just as rewarding.
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Healing Eden Vincent Dane struggles to deal with past mistakes and misunderstandings in the hopes of healing old wounds. For someone who didn't feel as though he had much of a past, what he did have he didn't feel he'd handled too well. An ambulance ride gives him another chance to right those wrongs and rescue his dreams.
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Protecting Eden Chicago Police Detective Sean Clary returns to active duty after a knife injury only to get an assignment that turns out to be his greatest challenge. His motto had always been "Protect and Serve", but he'd never been in a position to possibly lose his future by protecting his past. Carena Cabot shows him that although he is a unique man, there is a woman out there just like him and she forces him to finally face himself.
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Completing Eden Seth McGinnis is the last single man standing and it's a lonely place to be. As he battles his friends and pseudo family for privacy, he wrestles with his own conscience and decides he can't let Brogan's Pub be the only thing in his life. Although his covert methods put a strain on his Eden Hall bond, he finally decides to take a risk on fulfilling his undisclosed dreams. Finding out along the way that he actually has a big Irish family was just an added bonus.
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I know when you meet this warm unique family, you will want to follow each of them on their individual journey to discovering what Eden Hall means to them and how the strength of their alliance helps them each find love and happiness.
