Lies Left Behind (Paperback)

Hattie's dream of becoming a journalist has always come second to protecting her mother from her father's drunken abuse. Still, her favorite teacher asks her to be his teaching assistant and Jake from English class slow dances with her in a beach cave on their first date. At the start of her senior year, her aunt dies, orphaning Hattie's fifteen-year-old cousin and best friend Lydia. Lydia comes to live with her parents, but not before her father drops a bombshell and swears Hattie to secrecy-16 years ago, he had an affair with her aunt, and he's Lydia's birth father.

Will the secrets and lies keep Hattie from college and a career? Can Jake help put the pieces of her shattered life back together before it's too late?