To save the family home from foreclosure, Regina Burns must take a temporary job in Atlanta. But the move is fraught with emotional baggage. Her new employer, Beth Davis, broke up Regina's wedding plans a few years back because she didn't think Regina was good enough to marry her son. Meanwhile, Regina's visionary aunt has told her to be on the lookout for a handsome stranger with "the ocean in his eyes." Then a blue-eyed brother appears on the streets of Afro-Atlanta. But between falling for Blue Hamilton and dealing with Beth, secrets will emerge that will threaten to send Regina's life twisting in surprising new directions.

Pearl Cleage is the author of Babylon Sisters; Some Things I Thought I’d Never Do; the Oprah pick What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day… (all of which are available as Sound Library® audiobooks); and I Wish I Had A Red Dress. An accomplished playwright, she teaches playwriting at Spelman College, is a cofounder of the literary magazine Catalyst and writes a column for the Atlanta Tribune. Cleage lives in Atlanta with her husband.