The sequel to The Thin Pink Line picks up where the
story left off, as Jane Taylor arrives at the house of her
ex-boyfriend, Tolkien, carrying a baby she found on the
steps of a church. After faking a pregnancy for nine months,
fate delivered little Emma into Jane's arms. Though there's
no way Jane can pass Emma off as her own--Emma is black,
while Jane is white--Jane wants nothing more than to adopt
Emma and raise her, but her own deception might stand in her
way. She has to come clean to her family, friends, and
coworkers and convince them to hide her folly from Stephen
Triplecorn, the Social Service worker who seems determined
to find Jane unfit to raise Emma. But as Jane bonds with
Emma and starts to win Tolkien back, her fake pregnancy
comes back to haunt her in an unforeseen way.