Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen

Summary: Ruby, where is your mother?

Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she's been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.

That's how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasn't seen in ten years, and Cora's husband Jamie, whose down-to-earth demeanor makes it hard for Ruby to believe he founded the most popular networking Web site around. A luxurious house, fancy private school, a new wardrobe, the promise of college and a future; it's a dream come true. So why is Ruby such a reluctant Cinderella, wary and defensive? And why is Nate, the genial boy next door with some secrets of his own, unable to accept the help that Ruby is just learning to give?

Review: Its been a while since I've read a Sarah Dessen novel, but I decided to pick one up, and well I don't think I ever actually put it down the whole four hours I was reading it. Ruby's story was the kind of story that you desperately try and finish to figure out how it all turns out. She's had a rough life and it makes you just want to see how it all will work out in the end. Sarah Dessen will always be one of those writers that make you feel like you are the main character, everything the main character goes through, you somehow go through, and in a way that made me feel a lot more attached to the book and other characters. 'Lock and Key' was an amazing, heartfelt story that somehow draws you in and makes you believe you're apart of their lives.

There were four different book covers! I read the first one and also prefer that one. Which one's your favorite?

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