The Year We Hid Away (The Ivy Years, #2)

by Sarina Bowen

“I need you, Scarlet. Even when things are really ugly. Especially then.”

“I’m not even related to him?” Never before today had it ever occurred to me that my father was not really my father. At the edges of my shock, I could feel an oncoming wave of relief. I was having the reverse of a Star Wars moment. Darth Vader had no claim on me.

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” — The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne