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Informationen zum Autor Jacquelin Thomas’ books have garnered several awards, including two EMMA awards, the Romance In Color Reviewers Award, Readers Choice Award, and the Atlanta Choice Award in the Religious & Spiritual category. She was nominated for a 2008 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction in the Young Adult category. Jacquelin has published in the romance, inspirational fiction, and young adult genres. Klappentext In this latest installment of Thomass teen Christian series, Divine Matthew-Hardison must figure out what being a friend really means when she discovers her best friend is being abused by her boyfriend. Zusammenfassung It's up to Divine to decide.... Growing up in the Hollywood spotlight -- and the tabloid headlines -- Divine Matthews-Hardison knows how tough it can be to keep secrets. And nothing has changed now that she lives in Temple! Georgia! with her kindly pastor uncle and his family. There's no such thing as privacy in their boisterous household -- Divine can't even get close to her boyfriend at a school dance without Aunt Phoebe monitoring her! while Uncle Reed drives her nuts! quizzing her on his Sunday sermons. But Divine is about to learn that some secrets do more harm than good when kept under wraps. Does keeping silent help or hurt? When she begins to suspect that her friend Mia's domineering boyfriend is abusing her! Divine must decide whether or not to expose a painful secret for Mia's safety. Meanwhile! her cousin Alyssa confides in Divine about her own boyfriend troubles -- how far should Alyssa go to keep him? With her mother in nearby Atlanta! Divine has a fresh chance at reconciling her family -- but she has to get past her resentments of Kevin! her mother's new boyfriend. With so much drama going on! will Divine be able to look to her heart and know how to help her friends -- and herself?
