This is for anyone who has trouble with dates and such...
Even I can get confused and it's all from my own head!
So here is a brief timeline of events leading up to this book so when events are mentioned in the story you can track when it happened to her. :)
I hope this helps!
AGE-------------------------EVENT-----------------------------GRADE
~8 Faye's father dies 3rd
~10 Faye and her mother 5th
move to a new town
~11 Faye's mother 6th
gets remarried
~12 Faye starts 7th
getting abused
~13 Faye slowly stops 8th
talking during the
school year. And during
the summer, goes
completely silent.
She is currently in her senior year. She won't have full access to her trust fund until her 18th birthday and as soon as she does she'll be leaving. She just has to bear it all until she can run away. And this is where our story starts!