After reading LIFE AS I KNOW IT, you will never go out in a lightening storm without thinking twice.

Independent, career woman Jessica Taylor is hit by lightening. Thankfully she suffers only minor injuries-- to her body, but what about her soul? Because it now appears (to her, if not most others) that she inhabits not one but two bodies, the other being the person of Lauren Richardson, a wife and mother of four children (including one with special needs). Jessica never imagined herself in this position, even in her real life, and doesn't know how to undo it, that is, if she wants to.

Melanie Rose has written a charming story about stepping into someone else's shoes. Jessica steps into the fashionable footwear and life of a mother who, in many ways is all that she isn't or imagined that she'd ever want to be, only to discover that there are pluses and minuses to every life. An amazing writer, Ms. Rose aptly juggles the perspectives of two very different women. I became impatient as I read, curious as to how it would all end and sure that at least one of these women would have an unhappy ending, but Ms. Rose developed the perfect ending for a very original tale.