About the Book: Mothers
All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if wed taken a moment
to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an
unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season. Its
the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious,
grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mothers recent
suicide, she takes up with the local pastors son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a
former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner.
They are young; its not serious. But the pregnancy that