Follows a young woman during her first year in college, as she becomes a nanny for a couple adopting a child, and falls in love with a young man. There are images from the book that float in my mind's eye a week after I finished it. Fascinating characters, interesting developments, but I still had to push myself to keep reading. Perhaps a steady diet of edge-of-the-cliff Bujold has made me an adrenaline junkie?