Nancy Hussey had no plans to author a book until she discovered her daughter's many teen diaries which were disguised as school notebooks clearly not intended to read by Mom. But she soon became engrossed in the intimate details of Sara's first love and the unfolding drama that she knew would keep readers intrigued. She believed that Sara's optimism and ability to live her joyful moments to the fullest would be an inspiration for all adolescents and young adults striving to reach their dreams. Twenty years of writing about her clients gave Nancy the courage to write about her own daughter's nine year battle with leukemia; she left Sara to share with the reader the affairs of her own heart. The author's narration (including humorous reactions to Sara's teen angst) interweaves the threads of everyone's hopes and fears for Sara as they struggle again and again to deny the specter of her death.