Valerie Cruz is a children's librarian and former foster child who decides to become a foster parent in order to help children who are in the same kind of situation that she was in as a child. Paige Wellington is a social worker who helps to run the foster parent training sessions and is herself a foster/adoptive mother. When the two meet, there is an immediate attraction, but the situation quickly becomes complicated when Valerie receives her first foster placement and Paige is the social worker assigned to her case.

This book's plot was pretty predictable, but the author was very good at making the emotions of the characters feel real and making you care about what happened to each of them. I cried a good bit during certain parts of the story. The main characters, including Val's foster children and Paige's daughter, were both complicated and endearing. The secondary characters, including Val's former caseworker and Paige's current coworker, Connie, Val's best friend Sasha, and Paige's coworker Joe, were all well drawn and added to the story in their own way.

I liked that the author did not shy away from the difficulties in the foster care system, showed characters accessing mental health care, showcased a woman of color as a main character, and included the children's point of view, not using them as mere props in the story.

Overall, this was a predictable romance, but an enjoyable and emotional read.

I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley.