T Jensen Lacey: 2 books

Kirby Austin is a half-Ute girl. Growing up on the reservation, most of what she has learned has come from television sit-coms. She marries young, to a rodeo bronc-buster named Jake. Once he becomes abusive, in the middle of one violent night she packs up their two kids and leaves. Nashville, Tennessee--also...

Fourteen-year-old Kati Newman likes her family just the way it is: happy. But just as her summer is about to begin in Cove Lake, Alabama, Katis attorney father decides to take in a teenager who finds himself alone after his dad is imprisoned. After working so hard to get her family back on track the...