Marilee is a poor girl who lives with her father. The day Marilee finds a magical rock, she spends her last dollar on a lottery ticket...and wins twenty million dollars. Now everyone wants something from her...except Adam -- her best friend who is as poor as she was, and who doesn't seem to want the new, rich Marilee at all.
A popular novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist, Cherie moves effortlessly from genre to genre, writing powerful and entertaining work, whether in literary hardcover teen fiction, mass market paperback fiction, for the stage, film and television, and for her nationally-syndicated teen advice column.