What We Wish For
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Be careful what you wish for ...
Fifteen-year-old Layla Freeman likes to pretend her life is fine. After all, her mother is about to celebrate thirty days sober, and yeah, theyтАЩve moved into a homeless shelter, but itтАЩs only temporary, right? Her mom will get better, and in the meantime, itтАЩs important that no one at school finds out where sheтАЩs been living for the past month. Layla has worked hard to build her reputation as a girl who doesnтАЩt care what others think of her, but the truth is she does careтАФdeeplyтАФand sheтАЩs tripping over her own lies, especially to her best friend, as she tries to pretend nothingтАЩs wrong.
With their time at the shelter running out, Layla hatches a plan to get help from her rich aunt and uncle, despite the long-standing feud between their families. When the plan backfires and her mom ends up in the hospital after an overdose, the silver lining is that sheтАЩs sent to fancy rehabтАФpaid for by Uncle Scott and Aunt Tanya. Layla gets to move into her aunt and uncleтАЩs mansion while her mom is gone and begins building a tentative friendship with her snobby cousinтАФeven as her relationship with her best friend deteriorates.
Armed with new wealth, new relationships, and even a new mother figure, Layla thinks all her dreams have come true ... But secrets have a way of coming out, and one secret above all threatens to turn her world upside downтАФand destroy her entire family.
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Melody Maysonet is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Work of Art and has been an English teacher, editor, columnist, and ghostwriter. After growing up in Illinois, she moved to South Florida to see how much greener the grass could be... and discovered that life is what you make of it, wherever that happens to be. What We Wish For is her second novel.
