A HAPPY FAMILY?

Willa's family is a blended family in Susan Beth Pfeffer's book Blood Wounds. Willa and her Mom, Terri, joined Jack and his daughters Brooke and Alyssa when Jack and Terri married. Jack insisted that they were a "happy family." Certainly this new family was better than Jack and Val, Brooke and Alyssa's mother, who argued all the time, especially since Val was rich and spent lots of money giving everything to her girls. Terri had taken Willa when she was four and ran away from her abusive husband, Dwayne, and the poor, small Texas town of Pryor. But there are hidden problems that the blended family never talked about until the police came to protect Willa and Terri. Dwayne had killed his new family, a young wife and three little girls, and was now on his way to Terri and Willa. Dwayne's attempt to visit Terri makes Willa want to know more about her father and his new family and brings Willa to question her own happy family. This powerful new book is available in the New Book section of the IMC.