On the night of Alex Carmody’s sixteenth birthday, she and her best friend, Cass, are victims of a terrible car accident. Alex survives; Cass doesn’t. Consumed by grief, Alex starts cutting school and partying, growing increasingly detached. The future she’d planned with her friend is now meaningless to her.
Meg Carmody is heartbroken for her daughter, even as she’s desperate to get Alex’s life back on track. The Birches, a boarding school in New Hampshire, promises to do just that, yet Alex refuses to go. But when Meg finds a bag of pills hidden in the house, she makes a fateful call to a transporter whose company specializes in shuttling troubled teens to places like The Birches, under strict supervision. Meg knows Alex will feel betrayed – as will her estranged husband, who knows nothing of Meg’s plans for their daughter.
When the transport goes wrong – and Alex goes missing – Meg must face the consequences of her decision and her deception. But the hunt for Alex reveals that Meg is not the only one keeping secrets.
Contrived Grade: D-Â
A wonderful book about the consequences of our choices This is a beautifully written book about choices, and how the choices that you make can change things so far down the road, so drastically, in wyas that you never could have possibly conceived.Â
The process of “delivering her” may just deliver her family and friends too… After losing her best friend in a car wreck, Alex spirals out of control, despite her own best intentions to get her life back together. Meg and Jacob, her parents, are dealing with struggles of their own. In the background, a web of secrets and hidden emotions separates them from each other and those around them. When Alex goes missing during a paid transport to a therapeutic program, what has been hidden is brought to light, with unanticipated results.Â