Would you invite a stranger into your house to live and take care of your kids? That's the question at the heart of this book.

I liked that the book was written from alternating perspectives, Anna's and Oaklynn's, including flashbacks. There were several twists and turns throughout the story.

Anna has been a stay at home to her two girls, who are 9 months and 3 1/2 years old, since they were born. She decides that she wants to go back to work so they hire a nanny to live with them and take care of the girls. She starts looking through employment agencies and finds Oaklynn. Oaklynn accepts and moves from Utah to the families home in North Carolina. The girls instantly love her. Anna is a little more hesitant, but tells herself she's just being paranoid until things start to go terribly wrong.