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A fire that destroys her home gives Teri Dinsmore sudden celebrity at school, even as it tears her troubled family apart. The story concern's Teri's decision between two boys who like her, her defense of her oft-divorced mother against Teri's critical sister, and her emergence from the wreckage of the fire with her family and her sense of self intact. Booth creates individually realized characters in this debut novel.