The Family You Make

Data scientist Levi Cutler didn’t mean to call the woman trapped with him (in a broken gondola perilously on the brink of falling off its line) his girlfriend, but why not make his mother happy if this is going to be his last phone call with her? Traveling nurse Jane is supposed to be working in Lake Tahoe until her contract is up—not falling out of the sky on her first gondola ride or reviving a wounded but handsome stranger while they wait to be rescued. Now that it appears both will make it out alive, Levi asks Jane to pretend to be his girlfriend, at least for a little while. Jane finds herself jealous of his tight-knit, nosy, and altogether wonderful family, but is also thinking she could finally see herself as part of one. Narrator Erin Mallon does a lovely job bringing the novel’s heart, humor, and voices to life.