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Perfect for readers who enjoyed Flowers in the Attic, this is a heartbreaking and shocking novel about siblings Lochan and Maya, their tumultuous home life, and the clandestine, and taboo, relationship they form to get through it.

Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As de facto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And the stress of their lives--and the way they understand each other so completely--has also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: A love this devastating has no happy ending.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 06/28/2011
ISBN: 9781442419957
Pages: 454
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.08w x 1.48d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/18/2011
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2011
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2011
Booklist 06/01/2011 pg. 80
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2011 - Recommended - Better Than Most
School Library Journal 10/01/2011 pg. 150
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2011 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 145277 / Forbidden
Reading Level: 5.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 17