Brown, Jaye Robin

While visiting her grandmother in small-town North Carolina to get over a break-up and improve her riding skills, seventeen-year-old Piper and local eighteen-year-old Kat, who is unsure of her sexual preference, help each other face their insecurities.

During her sophomore year, Jessica develops a relationship with Vivi which helps her deal with the anger she has felt since her father's death, only to be overwhelmed again when Vivi dies during their senior year.

While visiting her grandmother in small-town North Carolina to get over a break-up and improve her riding skills, seventeen-year-old Piper and local eighteen-year-old Kat, who is unsure of her sexual preference, help each other face their insecurities.

Jessica, an "out" lesbian and one of the only "out" teenagers in her school, finds that the grief and anger building inside her ever since her father's death is changed and redirected by Vivi when she crashes into her life, opening her up to love and encouraging her to pursue her talent as an artist. Then, in the middle of their senior year, Vivi suddenly dies, sending Jess back into anger and depression. However, in her work-study program she meets another new and unexpected friend who helps her learn to make room for her heart to heal and use her anger, passion, and creativity to make a new path forward to healing and a future.

"Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year"--OCLC.

When Jo Gordon and her evangelist father move to small-town Rome, Georgia, she hides her sexuality to fit in with her new stepfamily until she falls for popular girl Mary Carlson, who proves to be the ultimate temptation.

Sixteen-year-old Amber Vaughn dreams of attending the North Carolina School of the Arts to gain confidence in using her amazing singing voice, but her family is falling apart and she is torn between two boys.