Hannah Bartlett is a budding journalist, dutiful doctor's wife, and soccer mom of two who's suddenly been handed a full plate. A new baby alone can overwhelm, but add a nine-year-old foster son, meddling neighbors, and Hannah's nagging self-doubt, and it's a recipe for disaster.

Annie Jones, winner of the Holt Medallion for Southern Themed Fiction, and the Houston Chronicle's Best Christian Fiction Author of 1999, grew up in a family who loved to laugh, eat and talk-often all at the same time. They instilled in her the gift of sharing through words and humor, and the confidence to go after her heart's desire (and to act fast if she wanted the last chicken leg). A former social worker, she feels called to be a "voice for the voiceless" and has carried that calling into her writing by creating characters often overlooked in our fast-paced culture-from seventy-somethings who still have a zest for life to women over thirty with big mouths and hearts to match. Having moved thirteen times during her marriage, she is currently living in rural Kentucky with her husband and two children.