Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended and shipped off to Haiti.

Thanks to “the incident” (don’t ask), she's spending the next two months doing what her school is calling a spring volunteer immersion project.” It’s definitely no vacation. She'll toil away under the ever-watchful eyes of tati Estelle at her new nonprofit. And her usually absent lean-in queen of a mother is even there, too, lying low away from the media sharks after a much more public incident of her own.

All things considered, there are some pretty nice perks…like flirting with Tati’s distractingly cute intern, getting actual face time with her mom, and experiencing Haiti for the first time. But learning the truth about her mother's meltdown, and how she might be able to help, sets Alaine on a path that she never could have imagined.