She is Kit Burke. ... Or is she? Her mother's deathbed confession changes everything Kit had always believed about herself. Kit is 26, months away from receiving her degree in Elementary Education from UCLA, and the daughter of a single alcoholic mother. On the day her mother died, she told the girl that it was time to confess something in an attempt to get right with God. She then said Kit was kidnapped from a prominent Salt Lake family, and that she should go there to reunite herself with her parents.
The family, as it turns out, has historic ties to the Salt Lake valley because of its copper mine holdings. The current generation, a hard-working ambitious young group, runs a homeless shelter for battered women. In fact Cord McFarland is the young adminiistrator of the facility, though he prefers to work quietly behind the scenes so the tenants don't know who he is. There's nothing sinister in that; he simply doesn't want them to alter their behavior because they perceive him to be the wealthy owner of the place.
Kit journeys to Salt Lake and attempts to enter the facility, posing as someone who needs its services. While the staff sees through her, they also quietly agree that she should be allowed to liveon the campus until they can figure out what her real motives are. But Kit and Cord have ultimately struck up far more than a mere friendship, and that's a huge problem, because she could well be his sister.
This is reasonably well written. You will spend part of the book willing Cord not to kiss this girl, and the author builds just enough doubt into the possibility of Kit's genetic attachment to the family that you won't fling it aside in disgust. It's a short, quick read, and I enjoyed it just enough to seriously consider the second book in the series--but we'll see.