"Kill him?" My voice came out quiet. "What about Amy then?" I challenged after a moment. He seemed to see how what he said was affecting me, and smiled. It was cold and cruel, but behind the mask was something else, but I couldn't tell what it was, so I focused on his next words. They shocked me. "If she can't have him then no one can, she said so herself, so I don't think she would mind." His smile widened at my shocked expression. 16-year-old Angel McClain has to take over for her sister at her new teaching job at Hill-way high school. While her sister goes off to hunt down her husband, Angel as to act like her 26-year-old sister and hope not to get caught, but when Seth Jaspers find out her secret, everything just got a whole lot more complicated. Blackmailed into faking an engagement, dating the gym teacher for her sister, and wanted by her sister's husband who's supposedly involved with the mafia? Read to find out what happens to Angel with lots of twists and turns that are along the way...

On the cusp of true independence young and halfway cynical Barbara Quinn Taylors finds herself plucked from the adventure she hand-picked for herself and tossed into the shark-pool of her dysfunctional family when on a whim her mother elopes, and her prominently absent father takes a step into her life.