Topping the Willow

By Lori Closter

Description:

Stranded in paradise ... with a guilty conscience

One million things about fifteen-year-old Brittany Warner infuriate her mother—and vice versa. Britt wants to bask in the Hawaiian sun this summer as planned, not build her Ivy League resume at a lake cottage in Vermont. But her case against her power-attorney mother doesn’t stand a chance. She’s sentenced to an ordeal intended to set the course for the rest of her life.

Until she rebels, and her mother ends up in a coma.

Through a chance encounter with a waitress, Britt is sent to a Vermont horse farm where she is stranded in paradise with her guilty conscience and Will, an intriguing seventeen-year-old reformed by grace. Things go from bad to worse when she discovers secrets about her mother’s past that threaten her own identity. As Britt’s anger escalates, her risky decisions create a dangerous spiral that threatens to take her down, and Will with her. But a greater love is at work, giving her hope ....

Book Takeaway:

There is hope in Jesus; God's way works.

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Why the author wrote this book:

I spent almost my entire life in the Northeast, amidst major (birth) family opposition. After I transformed into fiction my own traumatic early beliefs (above), God led me step by step through crafting a salvation arc for an unnurtured, rebellious teen—and a troubled horse with whom she identifies. This novel, and its accompanying screenplay for which I'm seeking a producer, is for lost sheep.