Forbidden

A secret that could destroy two legendary families threatens to change the course of true love in Caroline B. Cooney''s mesmerizing novelAnnabel Jayquith and Daniel Ransom meet at a party. They fall instantly in love, unaware that their lives are inextricably bound together by the crime that shocked a nation.Daniel is the high-profile son of a slain US senator who had presidential ambitions. Annabel is the daughter of a billionaire businessman. Like Daniel, Annabel is haunted by the discovery of her family history—a past she never knew existed.Annabel is rich and beautiful, but eighteen-year-old Jade O''Keeffe is poor and alone. She hates her mother, the fabulously successful TV talk-show host Theodora Jayquith, for giving her up for adoption. But most of all, she hates Annabel, Theodora''s spoiled, much-loved niece. And Jade is going to make them all pay.As Daniel''s search for the truth about his father''s unsolved murder puts him in the crosshairs of Jade''s revenge, a killer slips from the shadows. Now a secret that could bury two powerful families could also destroy Annabel and Daniel''s growing love.