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I’d Give Anything
In trademark style, de los Santos presents a seemingly light story with hidden depths. Years ago, Ginny settled for marriage to a bland, dependable man. He’s the last man you would expect to get caught up in a scandal, but then he does. With his intern. The revelation shakes Ginny to her core, and fractures the seemingly perfect life she’s built for herself. Through an unexpected chain of events, one revelation leads to another, and Ginny is forced to re-examine—and finally reveal—a secret she’s been keeping for twenty years, one that broke precious relationships long ago. Her teenage daughter is also rocked by her father’s revelations, and sets out on a quest of her own. An absorbing tale of love, secrets, and forgiveness.
About the Book
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Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and her adventurous spirit—seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school’s auditorium ablaze. Ginny’s best friend Gray Marsden’s father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze.
While many in the town believe a notoriously troubled local teen set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their friendship.
Over the next two decades, Ginny puts aside her wanderlust and her dreams. Moving back to her hometown, she distances herself from the past and from nearly everyone in it. She marries a quiet man, raises their daughter, Avery, and cares for her tyrannical, ailing mother, Adela. But when Ginny’s husband, Harris, becomes embroiled in a scandal, Ginny’s carefully controlled life crumbles, and, just when she believes she is regaining her bearings, the secret she’s kept for twenty years emerges and threatens to destroy her hopes for the future.
With the help of fifteen-year-old Avery and of friends both old and new, Ginny must summon the courage to confront old lies and hard truths and to free herself and the people she loves from the mistakes and regrets that have burdened them for so long.
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