Their love, understanding and caring just warmed me heart to the very core!! Especially Tommy – who truly was one of the most amazing father-figure characters ever who just loved her unconditionally with all warmth and protectiveness you could ever want from a parent.

Luckily, Beth’s extended family of grandparents and uncles come to her rescue and take her away for the summer to heal. I am no longer the same little girl they loved.” Its hard to say which is worse – the act itself or the helplessness of being under the thumb of someone who chooses to be blind to your pain.ĭespite how horrible it made me feel to read what she was going through, I was also absolutely pulled into the story. But worse now, when she finally musters the courage to tell her drug- addicted mother, she is not believed. The story quickly progresses forward 4 years and she is still in the same situation.

This book doesn’t ease you in – right from the first chapter you are faced with the sexual abuse endured by Beth as a 10 year old child and honestly I wan’t sure at first if I could handle the book. I felt for Beth, I loved Ryan, I was drawn into the story, and I couldn’t put it down until I finished reading it at 4:30 AM. It was a captivating, emotional story of a girl healing from shattered trust and childhood abuse, rediscovering her self worth, falling in love, putting back together the pieces of her life and of the boy who helped her find that final piece and brought love, trust and safety back to her life. Its how we put those pieces back together that matters.” “We are all broken in one way or another.

The final piece by maggi myers