He is a dream come true for sixteen-year-old Emma; intelligent and free, dangerous and charming, he is in love with her and her alone.He is a handful for his parents, a willful and unmanageable child that makes their life a living nightmare.To the staff of the therapeutic boarding school, he is a troubled teenager that must be cured. To his therapist - another puzzle, a wild thing that can be tamed. Now, torn away from home, who is he really - Phoenix, Derek, or just another boy in need of therapy? Only time will tell."
He is a dream come true for sixteen-year-old Emma; intelligent and free, dangerous and charming, he is in love with her and her alone.He is a handful ...
Derek has just spent his sixteenth birthday locked inside Farmstead, a behavior correctional facility for troubled teens. Now, he devotes every waking minute waiting for his girlfriend, Emma, to visit. But when she does not appear day after day, he takes out his frustration on an orderly and the steel door that separates him from everything he knows and loves.
Emma has no idea what has happened to Derek. When she finally learns where he might be from a beloved school counselor, she works through her grief by writing in her journal-addressing Derek as Phoenix. She lovingly wraps a...
Derek has just spent his sixteenth birthday locked inside Farmstead, a behavior correctional facility for troubled teens. Now, he devotes every wak...
