The Boarding House

From the New York Times–bestselling author and "consummate storyteller" comes a novel of one young girl's descent into trauma—and her ultimate triumph (Debbie Macomber). 

With her twin brother Wyatt, Ellie Wayne grows up in an outwardly perfect, inwardly troubled household in Memphis, Tennessee. Their abusive father dominates their lives, while their mother escapes into religion, eventually committing suicide. Feeling more abandoned than ever, Ellie must hold her broken self together until she and Wyatt turn eighteen, when they can finally escape their father's clutches. But there might not be enough glue in the world to put her back together again after a shockingly violent confrontation . . .

A searing novel of family dysfunction and one girl's shattered mind, The Boarding House portrays the mental and physical consequences of child abuse, the risks one takes to survive, and the healing that comes from finally finding peace.