Jasmine Jazz Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season.

The family trip is her mothers doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young.

But going to India isnt Jazzs idea of a great summer vacation.

She wants no part of her mothers do-gooder endeavors.Whats more, Jazz is heartsick.

Shes leaving the business she and her best friend, Steve Morales, startedas well as Steve himself.

Jazz is crazy in love with the guy. If only he knew!Only when Jazz reluctantly befriends Danita, a girl who cooks for her family, and who faces a tough dilemma, does Jazz begin to see how she can make a differenceto her own family, to Danita, to the children at the orphanage, even to Steve.

As India claims Jazz, the monsoon works its madness and its magic.From the Hardcover edition.