Released from prison, Lexi returns to Pine Island, only to find that her daughter is as isolated and distrustful as any foster child.
Grace bears such an uncanny resemblance to Mia that Jude finds it almost impossible to warm to her. While incarcerated, she gives birth to Zach’s child, Grace, and relinquishes her to the Farradays. Lexi, unwilling to burden Eva with the expense of a trial, pleads guilty to vehicular homicide and serves over five years in prison. Zach and Lexi sustain milder injuries, but Lexi’s blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit, and she accepts the blame for killing Mia. Mia is thrown from the backseat and killed. (The question of who actually drove is left vague, which dodges several moral bullets, to the story’s detriment.) On a hairpin curve, the Mustang spins out and crashes. One foggy night, Zach and Mia get falling-down drunk, and Lexi, less inebriated, urges Zach to let her drive his Mustang home. As seniors, Zach, Mia and Lexi can’t avoid Pine Island’s teen party scene. Jude, whose days are a pleasant whirl of caring for her elaborate garden and being a supermom, has a strained relationship with her own mother. As senior year approaches, Lexi and Zach fall in love and are relieved that Mia approves. Soon, the Farraday’s opulent Pine Island residence is Lexi’s second home. She bonds instantly with the equally alienated Lexi. At Pine Island High School, Mia, daughter of Jude and Miles Farraday, and twin sister of Zachary, considers herself an outcast. A long-lost great aunt, Eva, a Walmart employee, offers Lexi a home in her trailer across the bridge from Pine Island (Hannah’s fictional stand-in for Bainbridge Island) near Seattle. A disadvantaged teen finds friendship, acceptance and love with a prosperous Seattle-area family, until a tragic accident changes everything.Īlexa (Lexi) Baill, daughter of a heroin addict, has bounced around the foster-care system for years.
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