After watching her younger sister deal with an unplanned pregnancy, Robyn understands that only she can turn her life around – and the only problems she can solve are hers.

Clinging to the hope that she can both fix her family and make her break for a cosmopolitan life, Robyn is forced to make a choice between her family’s future and her own.

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Reviews:

"... The portrayal of Robyn's family life is realistic and dynamic. Hart's representation of poverty as it intersects with alcoholism is perfectly pitched ... accurately captures the pervasive boredom encountered by teens stranded in small towns."

- CM Magazine, December 2009

"Every so often I come across a novel that touches a cord and leaves me yearning for more ... Best Laid Plans crosses generation boundaries and is so well written and such a moving story that I could no sooner set it aside than say goodbye to the characters. Robyn Earle is that young girl inside all of us. She's that girl who is afraid to make the wrong decision, but who so desperately wants to grow up and escape...

Best Laid Plans is the story of a young woman on the cusp of self-discovery. Will she reach for her dream and leave her family behind? Or will she save the orchard her father is bent on destroying?

I recommend this book for those young people in your life."

- Joylene Nowell Butler, author of Dead Witness, December 2009