All's fair in love and kindergarten admissions.

At thirty-nine, Josie Bordelon's modeling career as the "it" black beauty of the '90s is far behind her. Now director of admissions at the most sought after San Francisco private school, she's stylish, single, and determined to keep her beautiful and brainy seventeen-year-old daughter, Etta, from making the same mistakes she did. 

But Etta's passion for ballet has her envisioning a very different future than the one her mother has planned--and their beloved matriarch, Aunt Viv, has Etta's back. Meanwhile, Josie's best friend thinks all Josie needs is to get back out on the dating field . . . unfortunately the only eye candy around is Golden Boy, a gay dad of one of Josie's prospective kindergarteners.

As the admissions season winds down, those closest to Josie turn out to be full of surprises, and Etta's future might have more to do with Josie's past than she could have ever imagined.