John Trainor

Meet Mowgli Muldoon John Trainor

Jesse and Ruby-Jo Hornbeck are assured by the local clairvoyant that their sixth child will be the much sought-after daughter they had long awaited. However, when the time comes, they find themselves saddled with a lusty, bouncing, BLIND, baby boy. Unprepared both emotionally and financially to deal with a special-needs child, they make the difficult decision to give him up for adoption. Jesse's childhood friend, Big Hughie Muldoon--now a successful doctor--stops by to introduce his wife-to-be to his old friends. Dr. Anne Stanfield Jones is not only a talented doctor in her own right, but a very beautiful woman. Ruby-Jo's latent feelings for Big Hughie cause her to feel embarrassed and extremely "frumpish" until Anne puts her at ease. In a bizarre turn of events, Hughie and Anne adopt Jesse and Ruby-Jo's blind son from the orphanage--and name him Mowgli. A bright child, his parents never consider the boy's blindness a disadvantage and encourage him to do everything sighted children do. With a love of music, in his teens he forms a band. He goes to college and studies law. He meets and marries a lovely young woman named Jenny who also encourages him to be all he can be. Mowgli takes a position with a renowned legal firm and quickly becomes known as a rising star. The attorney's biological mother comes to him with a problem that only he can solve. His brother has committed a crime and she is asking for his help. Believing his sibling is actually innocent, Mowgli works hard to get him off and then receives a nasty shock when he learns the ugly truth...