Family Ties

Fourteen year-old Sara Parker lives a sheltered life in Encinitas, California. She's not allowed to have friends until Arissa Jericho moves in across the street before their freshman year of high school. Sara's parents reluctantly allow the two to be friends, finding other ways to maintain control over her life instead. Sara needs to keep the family secrets while walking the fine line of her friendships with Arissa and a boy at school, Jason Waters. She believes if she can keep quiet,...
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Fourteen year-old Sara Parker lives a sheltered life in Encinitas, California. She's not allowed to have friends until Arissa Jericho moves in across the street before their freshman year of high school. Sara's parents reluctantly allow the two to be friends, finding other ways to maintain control over her life instead. Sara needs to keep the family secrets while walking the fine line of her friendships with Arissa and a boy at school, Jason Waters. She believes if she can keep quiet, she won't lose her friends and might be able to survive. This work of fiction will take you on an emotional roller coaster, proving that hope can be found in darkness and that families are not limited to the one you are born into.