When Annie Cameron asks, "How can I be driving to an abortion clinic? Nine weeks ago, I was driving to a fertility clinic?" she is facing an unbearable dilemma, which readers have regularly asked, "What would I have done?" Set in rural Georgia and spanning approximately ten years, the novel travels through Annie's fear, guilt, joy, romance, and sorrow before culminating in a mesmerizing conclusion that has readers glued to the page until the final sentence. Annie is the pearl in the center of her family's crown. She is married to a handsome FBI agent and wants nothing more than to have his child. When her dream-come-true becomes a nightmare-in-disguise, she is required to make choices that alter her fundamental character and jeopardize her soul. Readers will alternately want to hug her and shake her as she struggles with a dark secret that can destroy all that she holds dear. A book brimming with social issues and diverse characters, readers will debate the path Annie chooses and wonder what would have resulted had she taken another road. Along with Annie, the reader will love and hate those in her universe and fear for her exposure.
