Sadie Woodbury has lived her entire life in the upscale Avalon Hills, where her father is a popular teacher at her prestigious private high school and her mother is a highly respected nurse at the local hospital. Years ago, Sadie's father George stopped a gunman at the prep school, and her been heralded as a hero since. Sadie has a loving boyfriend Jimmy, and despite having some normal teenage difficulties, she's content with how her life is going and the trajectory her future appears to be shaping into. But all that changes when the police arrest her father and tell her family he's been charged with sexual misconduct from a school trip he chaperoned months prior. Now, everything is at risk - trust, money, love, family and status.
I enjoyed the premise of this book and thought it had a lot of potential, but a lot of things fell short for me. The characters in the beginning were well thought out and I truly felt I got to know most of the characters early on, but as the book progressed, many things became repetitive and boring. The plot started to stall and then the ending was rushed and for me, wasn't satisfactory. I'm disappointed that a story with such strong beginnings lost its wheels and ran off track.
