The only child of a US naval officer and a charming mother, Grace Houston is the centre of her parents' universe - until sudden tragedy tears her world apart. Grace and her mother, Jackie Lee, must leave the naval base in Virginia to ritzy Palm Beach, Florida, to start all over again. It's hard enough being the new girl - but Grace is enrolled at a prestigious private school where what you wear is more important than who you are. Now her own mother is pressuring her to do whatever it takes to be accepted by the in-crowd. But Grace just wants to close her eyes and disappear. Soon Jackie Lee marries a sophisticated millionaire, Winston Montgomery, who is her ticket to high society. But happiness once again vanishes into the shadows - and it's not long before the young and dashing Kirby Scott works his way into Jackie Lee's life. He's got his eye on her newly-inherited forturne - and something much more precious: her beautiful, innocent daughter ...
The book isn't bad, but I find it very irritating to find odd discrepancies moving from the previous books in the series to this one. This book seems to be set in the wrong time period. Grace's daughter and granddaughter apparently live in the same time period she does....which makes no sense at all. Literally, Grace is speaking of computers and email during this book, while in the previous book, her granddaughter is giving brand new PDAs to her half-brothers. It makes no sense and I'm not fond of the way this book was written.
