A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Delinsky, a first-rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors ("Boston Globe").

"Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work -and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host-the day after...