title: Crescent Moon
author: Tlucak, Mary Morrow
description: It is 1976. Geraldine, who has always been called Deenie, gets a call from her best friend. Lorna seems a bit mysterious when she offers to treat Deenie and her little boy to a trip to visit her in California. Deenie wonders if something is wrong, but can’t really think of a problem Lorna’s celebrity status, money, and powerful husband couldn’t solve easily. On the last day of her wonderful vacation, Deenie learns that Lorna did have another reason for wanting her to visit. Lorna needs a favor and wanted to talk with Deenie in person about it. She tells Deenie that in trying to have a child with her husband, she’s learned she’s infertile. She and Jeff desperately want a child, but he wants his own child and refuses to adopt. She asks Deenie to be a surrogate mother for them. Deenie is completely taken aback. She’d never heard of such a thing before. And it certainly is, as Lorna herself put it, about the biggest favor there could ever be. Deenie feels a lot of reluctance, but also feels a lot of gratitude to both Lorna and Jeff, especially Lorna. Despite some difficult times occurring between them in the past, Lorna has been Deenie’s best friend since they were five years old. She has always been there for Deenie, especially during the two hardest times in Deenie’s life. Deenie felt she might not have made it through those times if not for Lorna. So she agrees to a surrogate pregnancy. It’s a favor that Deenie will live to regret in more ways than one. The book takes the reader to Deenie and Lorna’s past, and more importantly, through the ups and downs and outright dangers of Deenie’s current situation.