Jon was a powerful force in my life, as powerful as my mother had been before. Jon and my mother were both suns—when I differed to one of them, I became a shadow.
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Blake has always lived in her mother's shadow. Her mother holds an important job in the art world and expects Blake to follow in her footsteps. But what Blake wants is a warm, quiet home life, and a mother who's always there.

When she finds it with Jon Purcell's family, she's delighted. And she's even more delighted when she finds herself falling in love with Jon... until she makes the disturbing discovery that she's as much Jon's shadow as she was her mother's.

Blake wants to be herself. But how? Must she stop loving Jon?