Frances Robinson seems like an average teenage girl. She lives in Alabama with her normal yet overprotective parents. She is a junior in high school, with a best friend and an exciting new love interest. In every way Frances looks like your typical teen. But Frances is not exactly what she seems. Her real name is Francine Jelks, nicknamed "Shine" by her birth mother. Years ago when she was just a small child, her mother tried to suffocate Francine and her three little sisters with a pillow. Francine was the only sister to survive, thanks to a man who heard her struggle and intervened. Following this highly publicized incident, her mother was institutionalized and Francine was adopted by the Robinsons, thereby becoming Frances, a normal American teenager. Lately memories have been rising up in Frances, just in time to receive a letter from her birth mother's attorney. The letter is written by her birth mother, and it carries an eerie message that provokes Frances to go against her parents' wishes and make the journey to see her insane mother. Through this journey that she makes with her new boyfriend, Nix, Frances comes to confront and accept her tragic past. All while experiencing the novelty of falling in love with Nix, she discovers new places and meets new people that lead her to know more (and remember more) about her childhood. Her struggle is not one that just anyone could relate to, but regardless anyone will be easily drawn into her heart-wrenching story that keeps you on edge until the very end.
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