Gillian succeeds in building a new life for herself in New York City, vowing never to see her childhood home again. But when she learns her mother is dying, she drags her twelve-year-old daughter back to hell on earth, also known as Barnesville. Once again caught in small town life amongst old friends and enemies, her past comes back to haunt her, turning her world upside down as the question still remains. Who is the father of her child?
MY REVIEW:
High School is always a difficult time in
all teenagers lives. I don’t care if you
come from the finest of families or the wrong side of the tracks. You have so many hormones taking over your
body at once of course no one’s love life or lack of one is more important than
yours.
Which was exactly true for Gillian Crane a
senior in high school and madly in love with Luke Walker. Of course Luke was not a boy that was
approved of by what Gilly called the “Barnesville Hyenas.” The Ladies of the Church who like to belittle
you. So when she was asked to the senior
prom by her best friend ever Andrew Marshall she thought perfect.
You see she used countless hours with
Andrew telling her woes him and his mother Alma. You see Rachel her mother was not a loving
mother at all. Very bitter really. Along with the complaining the talked about
how in love she was with Luke. The thing
was the whole time Andy had a secret crush on her. So once they got to the prom they parted
because she was all caught up in professing her love to Luke and that made Andy
mad. Not knowing any better Gilly drank
the punch and it was spiked so she got really smashed.
All she remembers is the next morning is
waking up really sore knowing she had lost her virginity. Yet, she didn’t feel violated. She assumed it was Luke. She is sent away because she finds out a few
weeks later that she is indeed pregnant.
And that she is unmarried so that is a reflection on her mother and she
can’t have that now can she? So her
mother gives her all the money she has on hand in the house and puts her on a bus
and sends her away telling her never to come back.
Fast forward thirteen years. The same extremely cruel mother that sent her away at
eighteen pregnant and alone was dying from heart failure. Which I would have thought was hard to do
when you didn’t have one but anyway. She
packed up her beautiful daughter and left for the home she swore she would
never go back to again. The nurse had
called and said she had wanted her daughter there when she got there she said
she didn’t say such a thing. She says
mean and awful things to her all over again.
It turns out her doctor is none other than Andrew Marshall.
The catch up and he has her go to lunch
with him to see the gang letting her know that Luke is back in town now
too. She doesn’t want to go but he talks
her into it in an almost morbid way of hurting himself. When sparks start to fly so does the action
in the story.
I totally enjoyed the story as well as the
characters. They are well developed and
full of life and a lot of humor. I love
family drama and this didn’t disappoint at all.
Her mother was a real winner and yet you can’t help in a way feel sad
for her that she allowed the ways of others to dictate her lost time and the
love of her one and only daughter. I
give this 5++++ stars. Provided by
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