The target audience is LDS families. I think that anyone would enjoy reading this book. It speaks to adults as well as teenagers. The main topics include adoption, conversion and commitment.

The story is about a bachelor, Mitch, whose best friends, Lane and Ashley, are killed in a boating accident leaving their 13-month-old daughter, Emily Jane. Mitch is named as her guardian and without knowing of the accident or the deaths of his friends, he is awakened one morning to find the attorney and baby waiting outside his home. In his instant role as a parent we learn of his struggles to get Emily Jane to sleep through the night and to eat something besides paper. The sudden appearance of Ashley's estranged sister, Cory, causes problems in that Cory wants to take full custody of her niece but is not a member of the LDS church and her work as a photographer in the Amazon doesn't assure Mitch that Emily Jane will have the kind of stable family life that her parents intended for her.

Since I have read many books I thought I knew how the plot was going to go and that I had the ending figured out but I was a bit off the mark. The story is delightful and well written. It is the first of Nunes' books that I have ever read and I look forward to reading more of her work.

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M. McQuarrie, Washington
March 14, 2006