Showing results for "Teresa" in Coming of Age

As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life, two things are constant: the preciousness of water and her role as the savior of her family.

When I moved to Hollow Point, Pennsylvania, I had a plan. I would do whatever it took to climb my way to the top of the social ladder, not caring who I had to step on to get there. The girl who started that rumor about your eating disorder? That was me. The girl who made out with your boyfriend? Me, again. The girl you don't ever want to cross? You're looking at her, b*tch.

Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. That's why Brock and I never had a chance. I had to start my life over. College was my chance to become someone new. I changed everything about myself to fit in, but one person saw through my facade. The attraction between Abel and I was undeniable, but I still hadn't healed from the painful secret I carried around with me. Abel struggled to get me to face my past in order to move forward. In doing so, he revealed a secret of his own; one that changed everything I thought I knew.

I was young enough not to understand that my life was different. Colin became the one person that I could count on to protect me. He suffered for the both of us by carrying the burden of our secret. We were the lucky few that got a chance to start over. A fake family, a new home, and a pretty little life built on lies. But while our lives continued to intertwine, we were put on very different paths. Now it's only a matter of time before they collide and the beast behind the beauty is exposed.

Seit ihrer Jugend in Rom haben sich die beiden Frauen nicht mehr gesehen. Jetzt sind sie Mitte 40, geschieden, haben erwachsene Kinder. Federica, die eine, wurde von der anderen einst um Herkunft, Wohlstand und eine Mutter, die etwas hermachte, beneidet. Beide einte der Wunsch, schön und beliebt zu sein, und Federicas ältere Schwester war ihr gemeinsames Idol. Bis 1988, in einer Oktobernacht, auf tragische Weise alles anders wurde.