Books by Merilyn Howton Marriott

The children who enter The Main Street Clinic to see dedicated family therapist, Katie Collier, are brokenhearted and traumatized. But all is not lost; inside her clinic, Katie has built a refuge of help and hope. In life, Katie struggles to find balance. At home, she must meet the needs of her husband while quelling the mounting insecurities of their adopted daughter, Bailey. At work, she struggles to save her young clients at any cost, including three-year-old Sara Beth Martin-the clinic's youngest client-who pulls at Katie's heartstrings. But Sara Beth isn't the one with issues; Katie spots frightening symptoms in Sara Beth's mother.Katie is devastated when authorities discover the toddler dead in a parked van during the hottest part of a Texas summer, but she also wonders … was this a tragic accident or was the child murdered?

The children come-scores of them. Broken. Suffering. Learning to survive. These are not the clients Katie Collier expected to help when she went to work at the mental-health clinic.But Katie and her husband can't have children of their own, so her natural compassion flows. Still, Katie wonders why God gives babies to some women who seem unwilling to care, feed, love, shelter-even hold, and leaves other women barren.Then one day it happens. A little girl named Bailey walks into Main Street Clinic ... walks straight into Katie's broken heart.Forced to choose between her husband and her career, Katie fights to hold onto both in order to save Bailey. When her husband gives her the ultimate ultimatum, Katie finds the children of Main Street are not the only ones feeling cast out and lost.