Secrets And Lies

What would you do if you suspected that a family member was keeping secrets from you? It seems like the opportunity of a lifetime when twelve-year-old Britt's older brother, Brandon, gets a house-sitting job for the summer which will enable their family to temporarily live in a spacious new home in a beautiful Florida neighborhood. However, Bran begins to act suspiciously, evades questions, and becomes increasingly paranoid. Britt slowly realizes that her family wasn't invited to live there at all, and that Bran was only hired to mow the lawn. In fact, the house really belongs to her maternal grandparents who cast their daughter off when she married against their wishes. Bran says that the "grandparents" owe them this home due to the heartache they caused, and Britt feels torn between keeping her brother's secret and her own sense of right and wrong. When it is ultimately discovered that her grandparents, in fact, don't have any connection to the house, and the legal owner's return is imminent, how will Britt and Bran resolve the problem and face the consequences? This is a suspenseful and thought-provoking read about the nature of family and forgiveness.