What if you couldn't let yourself fall in love, for fear that you might accidentally destroy that person's life? And what if, when you finally opened your heart, you learned that the one you loved was running away from the exact call of God that you were running toward? [PLEASE NOTE: The language that offended some of the reviewers of previous editions of this novel has been removed.] Sheila Carson is a Kindergarten teacher in Dallas, Texas, estranged from her family while struggling with feeling more and more dissatisfied with her job. For the same reason she's avoided her family like the plague these past few years, the last thing she wants to do is get into a relationship with a man. So she does what she can to avoid the new fifth-grade teacher, a handsome, fun-loving man named Hank Johnson who seems determined to make inroads with her. Hank finally succeeds on the day that Sheila's favorite student, Diana, goes missing and he agrees to help Sheila look for her after school. Finding Diana means finding out that she's being taken care of by her aunt Rosa, whose career is less than family-friendly, to say the least. And that discovery leads to Sheila getting involved with Diana on a personal level that ultimately endangers her teaching career

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