Böcker av S A Fanning

After her mother''s death, sixteen-year-old Chloe Vanderbrooke is picking up the pieces and moving in with her Uncle Robbie and his wife, Glenda. She fully expects life to suck, but she''s hardly prepared for it to unravel completely.It begins when Glenda''s younger brother, Andrew, arrives. With his laid-back smile and easy-going charm, Andrew seems much younger than twenty-eight. He''s fun, flirty, and Chloe is thrilled to talk to someone who offers more to the conversation than the dreaded, "Are you okay?" But when he kisses her, it''s all wrong.After the kiss, Andrew isn''t so charming, but sketchy. He lurks around the house, stalks her at school, but it isn''t until Chloe finally confronts him that she finds out just what kind of monster he is. Her aunt and uncle are too absorbed with their own crumbling marriage to notice that Chloe''s skipping school, avoiding dinner, even contemplating suicide.Chloe knows she should tell someone Andrew assaulted her. But that person is gone. Not only that, she''s ashamed of the kiss, tormented by victimhood, and struggling to keep her counselor, teachers, and even her best friend in the dark. What Chloe really wants is revenge. Fueled by a rage that''s been simmering since her mother''s death, she discovers that Andrew is not the only one capable of violence.

Seventeen year-old Nat Reams was on his way to a basketball scholarship when he walked into chemistry lab after school and found his teacher assaulting a female student. So he decked the teacher. Now he''s facing expulsion. Awaiting the school board hearing that will decide the fate of his senior year, Nat spends his summer cutting grass with Molly Martinez-the girl from chem lab. Nat has an idea why Molly-a shy, straight-a student-refuses to speak up about what happened at school, and so he''s given up on trying to change her mind. But when he sees firsthand the hostile environment in which Molly''s family lives, he invites them to move into his spacious, yet highly dysfunctional house.∩╗┐