After the birth of Rebecca Stone's first child, she can't help but feel overwhelmed and asks one of the nurses to come home with her as the baby's nanny. Learning from each other along the way, Rebecca and Priscilla become close friends, and when Priscilla devastatingly dies during the birth of her own child, Rebecca steps in to adopt the baby, unaware of the forthcoming challenges of raising a child who is not her own race. Knowing the world will treat her two children differently, Rebecca becomes the mother she never knew she could be in this powerful novel.