Meg Shanley always believed that her parents died when she was a baby. Since then, she and her thirty-year-old sister Lucie have lived a nomadic life, never settling down long enough for Meg to feel like anything but the new girl. Alone in her uncertainty and confusion, Meg writes letters to Jennifer Aniston for advice. Unlike Lucie, Jen is stable. Shes on Megs TVno matter where Meg happens to be livingevery night at eleven. For a few years, Jennifer even writes back.

But now Jens letters have stopped. Meg and Lucie are in LA, in a tiny apartment, when a stranger shows up and reveals a seemingly impossible secret. Lucie is not Megs sister, but her mother. And back in New York, Meg has a grandmother and a real, honest-to-goodness father. Meg travels across the country to find her fatherand uncover the truth about her life. But instead, what she finds is the source of her own inner strength.

C. Leigh Purtills surprising and suspenseful first novel captures the exquisite joy and deep sorrow of a teenager who will stop at nothing to discover who she really is.

Fans of Sarah Dessen's Just Listen will fall in love with this gorgeously written story of one girl's search for her family and herself.

Sixteen-year-old Meg Shanley has to start life over again in Los Angeles because her thirtyyear- old sister Lucie can't get it together. Lucie is always chasing a new man, quitting her job, and packing up their lives. Meg wishes she didn't have to count on Lucie, but she's the only family Meg has ever known.

Then a man arrives on their doorstep and reveals a shocking truth: Back in New York Meg has an uncle, a grandmother, and a father who might not even know she exists. Meg sees an opportunity to have the family she's always dreamed about. She summons all her will, defies Lucie, and travels to New York.

But happiness, she discovers, doesn't lie in a new family. Instead it rests in the true source of her inner strength; in a secret that has been buried deep inside her heart.