Angel Rivals is simple reading for young Americans and their families. It's a story of how economic change and peer pressure challenges three teenagers and transforms a childhood rivalry into an unspoken, concrete bond. Butthe bond did not protect Jodie from the loss of her best friendher brother. While desperately searching for a murderer, she accuses the only person that shared her most precious memories. Jodie learns the valuable lesson that "keeping secrets" is far worse than "telling someone."