Dancing With Her is a book about how a box of junk and broken lights framed the cover of a precious love story that highlights the importance of love, friendship, and family. Dancing With Her is the sad but sweet story of how a black homeless man came to meet a rich white woman by chance; a chance which changed her life forever. A woman named Candy under too much pressure coming from a family of wealth and expectations, she recently learning 24 years after she was born that she was one of two twin sisters but she was chosen and the other was rejected; her sister, Margot raised by her grandfather, and now he was dying and all he wanted was for Margot to host the Christmas dinner the night of the 24th in hopes that he could reunite the family, Margot with her parents and her sisters, and in come all the estranged uncles and ants and cousins, the whole entire family, but Margot doesn't enjoy their presence. Looking from afar as they all come in is Gean, picturing nothing other than a big happy family, Candy is furious, she won't speak to her parents, Margot won't either, and the thing is, Gean would not have even be standing out there if it weren't for the Christmas lights. Uncomfortable with the whole setting, Candy takes her concentration away from her family, she wasn't supposed to be there either, Margot lived in Detroit, she came all the way from Wisconsin and she wasn't sure why, but when she looked up she saw Gean standing out there in the cold, looking hungry, just waiting for someone to invite him in. She was the only one who did; and after that Candy finds herself without a way back home and has no other option but to stay in the homeless shelter with Gean that night. She offers him a job and he teaches her the importance of friendship, and of never giving up on her family, about not giving up on Margot who hates her. When he dances with her, he makes her worries go away, and she forgets all of the pain, because he's dancing with her.