title: First Love: What Would You Give Up to Keep Yours
author: Brooks, Yolanda Callegari
description: Amani Shephard is saved, seventeen, and the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. However, this special position in the family comes with built-in pressures, especially since her sisters each strayed from their Christian upbringing. Her mother Olivia sees Amani as her last hope. Finally, she will have a daughter who "saves" herself for marriage. Then Amani meets Marley "Miracle Man" Jamison, a star college basketball player, who is also a Christian. As Amani falls deeper into the arena of young love, she spins a new world with Marley that threatens to overtake her until nothing else matters. When a family secret is revealed, her convictions are shaken and Amani is forced to uncover what she really believes. Unfortunately, her search for truth begins at a time when Marley is experiencing a shift in his views on abstinence. Amani must make the toughest decision of her life: Save it for marriage or just do it?