This heart-wrenching and heartwarming story about the challenges of growing up will have you rooting for two struggling young people in their search for happiness and for each other. Madison, the only Mormon in her high school, isn't part of the in-crowd. But when she wins a free makeover, she learns some skills that give her the self-confidence she has always lacked. What she has to decide now is whether it is more important to look good or to be good. Josh, a substitute on the high school basketball team, makes an unlikely last-second shot to help his team win the state championship. But unexpected hardships and an untimely death in his family mar his senior year and leave him wondering if there isn't more to life. Can these two youth who grew up basically alone find happiness? The Story Behind Alone, Together (2006) A returned missionary once told me that on the night before he was released, a sister missionary, also about to be released, asked him if he could give her a priesthood blessing before she returned home the next day because their mission president was unavailable.) While the young elder was giving the blessing, he had the strong impression that she would someday be his wife. He panicked and didn’t mention that in the blessing. The next morning he talked to the wife of his mission president. She encouraged him, when he got home, to at least write this sister a letter and see if he could arrange a time to visit her.