With turmoil at home increasing, eighteen-year-old Anita decides to go away to college. Without financial or emotional support from her parents, she saves money from her cashier's job at Kmart for one semester's expenses and heads off to Kansas State Teacher's College. In this second book of The Grace Chronicles, Anita begins to discover her way forward in life and finds happiness in unexpected places In her final year of college, she meets the man she hopes to marry and develops a vision for what God's plan would be for her life. This ultimately proves not to be, teaching her to learn to trust God even when He doesn't answer her prayers the way she wants or expects. She has to choose to submit to Him, believe His plans were better than hers and truly declare Him, Lord of her life.