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Anita M Shaw
Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Sleeping Dog Press
Type: Fiction
Pages: 388
Copyright: Feb/March 2025
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
How do you feel when you discover your diary is almost a mirror of your mom’s when she was a teen?
The world of 14-year-old Devynn X’Leyna Irvette Scoville has fallen apart. After another heated debate with Mom, Dad has left their family of eight, for good, taking his favorite son, 7-year-old Brady, with him.
Devynn blames her mom for this tragedy occurring in her lifetime. For Mom’s ability to generally find humor in a bad situation didn’t surface during this last quarrel as it had in past ones. If only she had laughed, the Scovills would still be one big happy family!
Still, she has Rodney. The senior who’s the tall, dark, and handsome, athletic type . . . with sleepy brown eyes and a smile calculated to seduce the unwary, the unwise . . . and the unwilling.
More vulnerable to his charm than before, believing he’s the one stable thing in her life, Devynn risks all to see him—even though her mom stands implacably by her strict rules concerning dating—especially someone like Rodney Jacques.
What can her mother possibly know about being a teenager in love? Besides, she made her own choices in life, right? So Devynn feels she ought to have the right to make her own choices now. After all, it’s her life, right? People should just butt out of it!
Devynn’s diary is the recipient of her innermost thoughts and feelings. Where else can she safely vent about this sad state of affairs? Wish that she could be anywhere but marooned on Planet EARTH? Why couldn’t she have a mom who didn’t care so much about her? One that didn’t care what she did, so she could see Rodney whenever!
However, the discovery of the diary her mother had kept as a teenager changes everything. In fact, Mom might actually have good reason to object to her relationship with Rodney.
The secrets in her mother’s diary are destined to change more than her outlook on her present situation . . . and in ways she never imagined possible . . .
Excerpt
From the diary of Devynn X’Leyna Irvette Scoville, 14 almost 15:
My Dearest Self,
The worst has happened, and it didn’t have anything to do with Rodney. That argument today was the Beginning of the End of OUR FAMILY. O, Self! Definitely, a TRAGEDY.
I don’t want to go to school tomorrow
How can she—they—anybody—expect me to learn anything when my nice normal family is breaking up?
How come this fight ticked him off more than any of the others? Had he hoped for her laugh to end it? Her hugs and kisses to fix it? How come he hadn’t acted like he wanted that? And why would he need to fight with her? Why not just give her some hugs and kisses? She’d give them back! A million times!
Oh, but why couldn’t she just have gone ahead and done it just the same? She’s always done so before!
It won’t be like that for Rodney and me. We’ll always tell each other everything. And I’ll never look at him like Mom did Dad—or use the tone that she used today on him. Or like the one he used with her! I won’t do anything that will make him leave me for anyone else.
Oh, and now, there’s something new I gotta find out. Why Dad said Mom should be careful that I don’t turn out like her. Can’t figure that one. I think she’s great . . . most of the time. She doesn’t smoke, drink, beat us, or say mean things even when we’re being our little lazy stupid selves. She’s not happy, of course. But she’s never done anything anyone can run her down for.
Oh, wait. Some people don’t need reasons. Any excuse will do.
Wonder what her school life was like. Like mine? I should ask. If she won’t tell me, I’ll ask Aunt X’Lohna. And if she won’t tell me, I’ll try Nana Phae. Someone’s going to tell me what Dad meant.
I got more to say, but I have to finish my homework even if I don’t want to go to school.
I feel a gut ache coming on . . .
Or no, wait. It’s my heart.
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