Dawn
Edition: reprint
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780671715502
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Modern fiction
First sentence: The sound of dresser drawers being opened and closed woke me.
Description: In her fine new Virginia school, Dawn Longchamp feels happy and safe. But nothing is what it seems... 

Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing can come true. Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, sets Dawn's heart on fire. She is deeply devoted to her brooding brother; but with Philip, she imagines a lovely dream of romance... 

Then Dawn's mother suddenly dies, and her entire world begins to crumble. After a terrible new shock, she is thrust into a different family and an evil web of unspoken sins. Her sweet innocence lost, humiliated and scorned, Dawn is desperate to find Jimmy again and...strip away the wicked lies that will change all their lives forever!
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