Publisher's Synopsis
Josephine Best has it all figured out. Just 17, she's been to college, has her own hairdressing shop and refuses to be distracted from her goals. When handsome George Brooks begins calling on her, she allows it, although she's not looking for romance. Then Adam Morgan returns home wounded from the War Between the States and Jojo begins to find it difficult to deny her growing feelings for the very boy who used to call her Pest'. But as their feelings for each other grow stronger, so does Jojo's determination to resist...'