Publisher's Synopsis
How do you remain a good person when bad things keep happening to you?
Lyra's life has been marred by family tragedy. A dutiful daughter; she has helped her older brother face terminal illness and supported her parents through their grief and subsequent divorce. At seventeen, it is time for her to be free, pick an exciting boyfriend, and start living a 'normal' life.
But Lyra is not destined to be average. There is more heartbreak to come, trials that will test her spirit, choices that will determine the family's future.
The truth of her is about to be revealed. Will she be able to live with it?
If you could exact terrible vengeance for a deep wrong done, what would you do?
"...In that eye-locked moment, Sophia knows that her daughter suffers from a deep trauma. She does not know the shape of it, the scale of it. She doesn't understand what has happened or who is to blame, but she does see that her daughter sits within its dark canyon. That her child is held against the walls of her hurt by forces that are beyond her ability to fight on her own. Intuitively, Sophia understands that these are dark forces. Within her daughter's obsidian pupils there is a shifting, smoke-like shadow. Despair."
