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A Sense of Belonging

出版	Outskirts Press, Incorporated, 2012-09
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Southern
ISBN	14787201909781478720195
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bZ-qMQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Isabella Meyers only wants one thing in her life: to belong, and it has to start with a journey. It all begins when she finds a half-written letter on her mother's desk one day and realizes she's the daughter of famous author, Scott Meyers. She realizes the man she's believed to be her father all her life is only her stepfather, and she finds out he didn't even care enough to adopt her. He has verbally abused her, made her give up the people who mean the most, and brought her to dangerous breaking points. Finally fed up with it all, she runs away, only to find a safe-haven in the same town: Hollandale House for Teens from Troubled Families. There she meets five people, one being someone she gave up months ago. Together they form the "Hollandale Rebels." Ian Lansing is one of the "Laketown Lansing's" of Laketown, Georgia. He's tired of the fame, and getting controlled by his overly formal mother. He leaves home and moves to Hollandale, finally getting the peace and freedom he needs. The day Bella moves in changes everything he's been striving for and he focuses on getting his best friend back. Bella and Ian rekindle the relationship that was left in tatters and become attached at the hip once again, only this time on a different level; Ian helps Bella make every decision, and Bella does the same. They rely on each other to a level they don't realize, until the fairytale they've been living crashes down. Scott convinces the Rebels to move out of Hollandale and into a mansion with him, so that he, Bella, her mom, and her little brother can have a chance at becoming a family. Ian moves back in with his own parents, who happen to live next door to Scott, letting the Rebels stay close as ever; until the day Ian has to leave. Falling into a deeper void and lying to everyone around her, Bella has only one person to rely on: Ian and she can't even tell him everything. Over eight hundred miles away in New York City, he does his best to reach o