Margarette

Young Adult An empty house and a negligent mother lead small-town Margarette into the deviant web of a new set of friends. A lapse in judgment, trust put in the wrong peopleand sweet Margarette becomes the victim of a social disaster, setting in motion a chain of events that will alter her life forever. Social death doesn't come without a silver lining. Margarette finds herself the interest of town heartthrob Tommy Gallager. She is determined to like him, if only to spite the friends that betrayed her. Bad choices keep piling up, and she suddenly becomes trapped in a relationship that she doesn't want. But when she comes across a forbidden book that leads her to believe she can find true love, the type of love that is only written and not seen in real life . . . will she be able to resist the pull of an impossible quest? Or will the small town drown her ambition?