If this young romance doesn't touch your heart, I think you need to run--oops, no, walk or drive--to the nearest cardiologist, because there is something wrong with your ticker.
Emie is the child of a manipulative and sadistic father and a placating mother in the superstitious Virginia hill country. When her father promises her to the town bully (and son of the local preacher), Charlie, Emie said no. Not that it made any difference. And when that intended brutally rapes her just after her eighth grade graduation, Emie's father blames her for shaming the family. Even when the doctor and sheriff corroborate her story.
Ernest, Emie's brother, and Rudy, one of her schoolmates, support her, and Ernest takes her to a non-related aunt (Auntie Ada) to live. Ada welcomes her with open arms. Ernest brings her a puppy who will grow up to be her protector, he hopes. Ernest and Rudy come by almost daily, and gradually she heals in mind and body.
Danger lurks from Charlie, who is now out of jail, breathing threats because she'd sworn he was the culprit. If she won't change her story ....
Available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Come of age with this torn, innocent girl.
I received a free copy of this book from the author, but the opinions and evaluations are my own.
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