New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah "touches the deepest, most tender corner of our hearts" (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS's The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. The youngest of three daughters, Angela DeSaria Malone was always "the princess" of the family, a girl who thought she knew how her life would unfold.

High School. College. Marriage.

Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters, her cousins, her friends. But it didn't work out that way for Angie.

She and her husband tried desperately to have a child; year after year, their perfectly decorated nursery remained empty. After the divorce, Angie moved back to her hometown and rejoined her loud, loving, slightly crazy family. In West End, a place where life rises and falls in time with the tides, she will find the man who once again will open her heart to love .

. Lauren Ribido lives in a rundown apartment in a bad part of town with a mother who cares more about her next drink than about her daughter. From the moment they meet, Angie sees something special in Lauren.

They form a quick connection, this woman who is desperate for a daughter and the girl who has never known a mother's love. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. In a dramatic turn of events, she and Lauren will be tested in a way that mothers and daughters seldom are.

From the Hardcover edition.