Amazon.com description: Product Description: A Literary Guild Featured Alternate -- When Alice's father is deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Matt Bliss is leaving just as his daughter blossoms into a full-blown teenager. She'll learn to drive, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother and take care of her younger sister. Alice wears her dad's shirt every day, and his phone calls are never long enough. Life goes on without him, but nothing prepares Alice for the day two uniformed officers arrive at their door.