Rivers, the mainstream romance writer and author of a best-selling historical series from Tyndale, The Mark of the Lion, argues passionately against abortion under any circumstance with The Atonement Child. Her Dynah Carey is a beautiful young college student at a Christian school in Illinois, engaged to the school's best student, when she's raped and impregnated by a man who's never caught. Interestingly, the reactions of her fiance, the college dean, her roommate, and her parents back in California are all the same: abort this abomination. Dynah is confused, and her faith is shaken, but Rivers' curious mixture of stark realism and romance e man stands beside her and is there at her side when she gives birth. The perfectly formed girl is the atonement child for Dynah's mother's abortion and a deeply Christian event, since Christ himself was born in atonement for the sins of humankind. The tale grows tiresome, but Rivers gets high marks for her portrait of the agony of Dynah and for her uncompromising eye both inside and out of abortion clinics.