Rachel Cartwright is the twenty-year-old daughter of Joyce Cartwright. In the summer of 1980, one year after the events that had forever changed Joyce's life, Rachel returns to the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Big Rock together with her steady boyfriend, Robert Campbell. Everything seems to have changed. Not only is Joyce and her father, Nelson, acting weird but her best friend Becky also moved in with her special friend Sally. On top of that, she is overwhelmed with questions she can't answer about her first serious relationship with the man who also happens to be the son of Nelson's boss. Through a series of unrelated events, she ends up having a chance meeting with Hakeem, a young and gregarious African American man, and her life gets turned upside down. Read this book to find out what happens Rachel decides to throw caution to the wind and take control of reigns of her own life. If you haven't read Joyce's Choice, don't fret. Rachel also has no idea of what her mother has been up to with their black neighbor, Darius!