Best-selling author Cheryl Robinson is a popular voice in contemporary African-American fiction. Both Winona and Porter still struggle with issues from their past and Winona's secret that she is HIV positive is becoming harder to keep from her adolescent children. Porter is trying to sort out both his past and his future, but as Winona becomes both emotionally and physically unavailable, he is unsure of what path to take. "A realistic, hard-hitting urban contemporary novel ..."-Book Remarks