Growing up with the homicide of someone she loved so dearly, Gabriella Fredrickson chooses to fill to fill her life with meaning by living with her best friend, Phillip, and working at a crisis shelter for abused and neglected children. She even co-founded a fundraiser with her sister-in-law for children in the foster care system to help them escape the troubles of their every day lives.She chose to stay away from love as a way to make sure her heart never gets broken again until Travis, Olivia and Casey's son, comes knocking at her door and turns her world upside down. She quickly finds herself falling in love and begins to let her guard down as she opens herself up to the grief and pain of her past while pushing to overcome her fears.She never expected to fall in love with two abused children from the shelter in the process and she soon finds herself on an unexpected path of tragedy, filled with heart-wrenching decisions as she fights for a little girl's life.A sequel to The Deception of Destiny, The Perception of Gabriella is an unforgettable journey of love, loss, and despair. It shows we can't chose who we fall in love with and that life doesn't always go as planned.