If you’ve ever worked as a nanny, or even at a daycare, you know that watching someone else’s children can rapidly burn you out. You deal with all of the problems &, usually, can’t be the solution. This is the life Iris has been experiencing. She’s been a nanny to the spoiled & bored children of a well to do
Couple. The couple are busy & don’t have time for their kids. Iris knew it was time for a break or she’d never want her own someday.

Eric is in shock. His sister & husband are gone & he’s the only one left to raise his niece & nephew. Unsure of what to do, he decided to follow through on the vacation his sister had booked before the accident. It was a familiar place to the kids but not as full of memories as home. It would give him time to figure out the near future. When Eric proved that he was lost, Iris stepped up to help.

I enjoyed the character dynamics in this story. The small town characters seem to grow more realistic in every story. They are the same people you’d see in any “small town USA”. The interactions between the cousins is exactly the way it was in our family growing up. You could bicker among each other but the minute someone from outside started in, watch out! They’d defend each other forever. This was a very emotional story from the beginning & the kids grabbed your hearts & didn’t let go. Their grief, fear & bewilderment seeps through the pages to lodge in your throat. I’m not ashamed to say I shed a few tears over them. This is an extremely heart warming, emotional story that everyone should read. ( )