It is about how Marguerite a.k.a. Maya gooes to South Stamps with her older brother( Bailey) when her parents get a divorce. They spend many years there until her father comes and picks them up and takes them to their mothers home in California. Soon after, the most terrible thing happens and Maya gets sexually assulted by her mother's boyfriend three times and the last time is when she got raped. It was ashame because each time he told her if she told and the last time he told her if she screamed then he will kill her. Also, this was when she was a little eight year old girl and he was in his forties. Maya be came to scared to tell anyone for the safety of her beloved older brother.When Maya's mother and brother found out they had told Maya's uncles and grandparents( who had a lot of power). They had a trial and had won. Her mom's boyfriend had recieved a year and a day but had gotten released on the same day. The day after the trial the police went to her grandparents house to tell them that Maya's mom's boyfriend had been found dead and Maya felt like it was her fault so she just stopped speaking altogether( although she still would say a few words to Bailey). That is all I had read so far!
sounds like a good but sad book. I would cry reading this.
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