When JonSun, a farmer’s son, is able to connect with SuAnn, the daughter of a wealthy doctor, while attending classes at the National Taiwan University, love quickly builds between them. However, when SuAnn’s father seeks to end their relationship in order to have his daughter follow his plans for her, Jonsun and SuAnn marry secretly and find a way to immigrate to the United States and find a new life in California. This life turns positive when JonSun stumbles into the world of flipping houses during the real estate boom in the Los Angeles area. Despite a tough birth, Elliana and Mitch are happy to have their new daughter, Christa. Yet, their new family grows when a Taiwanese exchange student Elliana and Mitch hosted tells them about her unplanned pregnancy and convinces them to adopt the child, so she can hide the shame when she returns to her family back in Taiwan. The adoptive daughter, Jadelynn, proves to be a wonderful sister to Christa, especially when it is discovered that Christa is nearly deaf. With the aid of a cochlear implant, Christa is able to have a more normal childhood and find strength in gymnastics. As Christa and Jadelynn enter school, they find a fast friend in Wynson, JonSun and SuAnn’s son, but life is not through throwing obstacles in their path when they reach high school. This novel is a story about overcoming obstacles and finding success, happiness, and love over a couple of generations. The novel reads quickly, as the author delves just enough into the characters to give the reader the basic path of the story. It may have been better to provide JonSun and SuAnn’s opening tale as a flashback, closer to the character message it becomes a foundation for, and I felt Jadelynn’s character could have been explored more. These are just a couple of reasons I was able to expect and predict the positive twist at the end of the story. In the end, it was a positive and satisfactory tale. ( )