This was a well developed story with characters that gave me clear feelings of sympathy, empathy, impatience and disdain. Mary Beth had a strong if rough beginning, when she finally remembered the grounding of faith she had been raised in, she tried to find her way back. When she finally got away from the environment she was living in, she was drawn back to the church and because of a prayer request from a lonely child she became involved in the life of her family.