In keeping with the spirit of altruism started by her social worker mother, Louisa Daniel, Emily Kristich performs community service. When she takes a position on the board of directors of a non-profit organization, Sustain and Shelter, Emily has to wade through a group of strange board members and stranger goings on. In addition, Emily must see to responsibilities of motherhood, comptroller for her husband's business and other volunteer work. If it only took two of these activities, she would be a master of time management and efficiency. However, being a twenty-first century woman, Emily must fit the solution of three deaths into her multi-tasking life. Join Emily in It Takes Two, the third book of the Louisa Daniel mystery series, as she, with the help of her mother, Louisa, sorts through an enigmatic situation in the work of volunteerism.