"A heart wrenching tale."

Sam Winslow's fourteen-year-old daughter Melanie has aplastic anemia and desperately needs a bone marrow transplant. Sam hires a private investigator to find her biological mother. When he finds Rebecca Martinson and meets her for the first time, he sees where his daughter inherited her beauty. All Sam wants from Rebecca is her permission to be tested to see if she is a match.

What Sam doesn't know is that Rebecca has been keeping secrets about Melanie's conception since she was seventeen years old. These secrets have the potential to hurt a lot of people if the truth comes out. Nevertheless, Rebecca agrees to go through with the testing and when she finds out she's a match, she agrees to have her bone marrow harvested for Melanie but she has one condition. That condition turns out to be that she have one month to spend with Melanie, only one month out of her whole life. Sam reluctantly agrees but he has no way of knowing that he and Rebecca will fall for each other in a big way. Will they be able to go back to their former lives once that month is over?

This story was not only heart wrenching but it also hit very close to home as I have an adopted niece and nephew. I have been a big fan of Jamie Denton's for a quite a while and this book is one of the reasons why! I am avidly looking forward to her next book.

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted July 31, 2001