From bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray comes a provocative novel that explores one family s secret over the paternity of their teenage daughter.
Anya Mitchell-Montgomery is a woman who has it all. She s a successful entrepreneur and businesswoman, she s married to a top executive banker, and she has two beautiful children sixteen-year-old Joy and thirteen-year-old Jewel.
But Anya and her husband David are hiding a dark secret from their oldest daughter. Sixteen years before, Anya was raped, and then found out she was pregnant. After major soul-searching, she decided to keep the baby. When David stepped into her life, the two married just months after Joy was born. Wanting to shield Joy from the ugliness of her conception, Anya and David decided to let Joy believe that David was her biological father.
Now, as a result of finding God during his time in prison, convicted rapist Alaister Baldwin hires an attorney to pursue visitation rights. He believes that he needs to know his daughter, and maybe she can give him something to live for.
At first Anya and David do all they can to fight the case, but when Joy tells her parents and the judge that she wants to meet her biological father, there is little her parents can do.
Will the rage that has been inside of Anya all of these years erupt when she and Alaister finally see each other again, or will her daughter s desire to know her father urge Anya to find room for forgiveness in her heart?"