Review: A short, lovely, sweet, touching, book"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2012
I loved this book! It had a beautiful happily-ever-after in the epilogue and  the author did an excellent job portraying a difficult and complicated subject and making it so believable.**spoilers** Sara and Ethan have been neighbors for two years and that entire time he has tried to get Sara to go out with him without success. Sara has a secret, one that prevents her from being an ordinary teenage girl and that keeps her in the shadows while being physically and emotionally abused by her father. Sara will do anything to protect her ten year old brother, even if means taking the blows meant for him or staying  in the house of horrors when she could have left without him and saved herself. Then one day Sara is beaten so severely that her brother calls Ethan for help and the awful secret and real reason why she can't be with him is revealed.But now Ethan knows and they grow closed as he tries to convince her to leave. Ethan is now Sara's rock, but she knows it's only temporary because he will be leaving in a few months to accept an out-of-state college scholarship  But Ethan is very clever and he finds a way to save Sara and her brother while making his own dreams come true.As I said, his is a lovely book, rather on the short side, but a quick enjoyable read for the romantic. I highly recommend this book.