In bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’s deft hands, Ariel’s emotionally charged journey to find out the truth of who she really is balances beautifully with Maya’s story of loss and redemption. Her father kidnapped her fourteen years ago. But now she’s isolated with a baby on the way, and life’s getting more complicated than Maya ever could have imagined.Īriel and Maya’s lives collide unexpectedly when Ariel’s mother shows up out of the blue with wild accusations: Ariel wasn’t abandoned. Maya’s a teenager who’s run from an abusive mother right into the arms of an older man she thinks she can trust. Complicating things are Monica and Gabe, both of whom have stirred a different kind of desire. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments, new schools, and new faces, all she wants is to put down some roots. Ariel’s mom disappeared when she was a baby. How Kaeleigh and Raeanne figure out just what it means to be whole again when their entire world has been torn to shreads is the guts and heart of this powerful, disturbing, and utterly remarkable book.įor as long as she can remember, it’s been just Ariel and Dad. But when the girls were 9, Daddy started to turn to his beloved Kaeleigh in ways a father never should and has been sexually abusing her for years.įor Raeanne, she needs to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite for Kaeleigh, she wants to do everything she can to feel something normal, even if it means cutting herself and vomiting after every binge.
Kaeleigh always tries so hard to be the good girl - her father's perfect little flower.
Raeanne goes after painkillers, drugs, alcohol, and sex to dull her pain and anger.
What really happened when the girls were 7 years old in that car accident that Daddy caused? And why is Mom never home, always running far away to pursue some new dream? Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for US Congress.Įverything on the surface seems fine, but underneath run very deep and damaging secrets.
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