Cinnamon has fought hard for everything in her life, a man, a job, and a nice house. Its everything she has ever dreamed of. One afternoon while Cinnamon is at the park, she finds an abandoned baby. The baby belongs to one of Cinnamon’s students; shes a college guidance counselor. The note with the baby begs Cinnamon to take care of the baby. Cinnamon does just that. She takes the baby home and works on giving it a home. Cinnamon eventually works to get custody of the baby, but at the custody hearing the mom shows up. Will Cinnamon get custody, or does the mom have a change of heart.

I was not prepared for this book. I read the synopsis and thought that it could be a lovely story, however, I was quickly irritated with the story. Cinnamon just found the baby in the park and her immediate thought is to just take it home – not notify anyone! I was happy that she eventually got the courts involved. I just failed to see the beauty in this story. It was unnecessarily bogged down and felt just so unrealistic and that the authors were just going for the shock factor that a black woman found a white baby. I felt so much of the story was hung up on that – and I wanted it handled differently. I also disliked the unnecessary use of overly complex words and verbiage in the book.

There was so much potential this one, but it sadly fell flat for me.

I will not be posting a review on my social media. I do want to extend my thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

I like these two authors when they write together. It did seem to drag at some parts and lost me with the thesaurus words. It had a lot of heart and soul and when you git to the epilogue it put it all together

I knew when the main character was an advisor at a community college that this was going to be a great book with a lot of heart. This was well-written and really makes you think (and feel). The epilogue really helped wrap everything up nicely as well.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.