Housekeeper to a Japanese family since she was 17, Agustina Dominguez lives a lonely life. Her only companions are her patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the hungry koi she feeds in the fish pond. Mistakes of the past haunt her thoughts and dreams - a teenage pregnancy that ended her hopes for higher education, and a troubled, violent son who needed more help than she could give. Alone at midlife, Agustina searches for peace - and for the chance to live the life interrupted so many years ago. When opportunity knocks in the form of an affectionate, handsome detective, she opens the...

Raised by adoptive parents on a southern California farm, Millie Wolf is loved but lonely. Who were her birth parents? What happened to them and the rest of her Mexican family? Then a budding romance illuminates her identity and reveals the miracles of love and friendship - for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. "Your vivid descriptions of life in a small Mexican village, both in 1957 and twenty years later, left me feeling as though I had traveled there with you." - Sue Anne Gilroy Indiana Secretary of State "This is a 'must read' book for young adults ... it encompasses the best of two...