He had scented candles set up all around the house and she loved it. John invites her to hr house to have 'dinner', and when she walks in she fell more in love with him. So they're relationship started getting more intense and Keisha thinks he's the perfect boy for her until something happened one night. Keisha is attracted to John because of how he makes her feel, he makes her feel like an adult and not a little girl. This was after the death of Keisha's ex-boyfriend. As Keisha struggles to put her world back in perspective, she learns the power and the danger of silence, and discovers the secret gifts that had been waiting for her all along.Ī girl named Keisha is on the track team, and her new coach is a young twenty three year old man named John Hathaway who is the principal's son.

But events take a terrifying turn, and suddenly darkness overwhelms her life.

Gifts wrapped with silver ribbons begin to mysteriously appear on her doorstep, and Keisha is swept off her feet. Jonathan makes her feel alive again he seems like the answer to all her dreams and the cure to all her nightmares. As Jonathan tells her, she's a butterfly ready to try her wings - much too mature for high school boys, whose only deep thoughts are words from rap songs. In her senior year of high school, still recovering from the suicide of her ex-boyfriend, Keisha's thrilled to have someone treat her like a woman rather than a girl. But best of all, twenty-three-year-old Jonathan Hathaway, the new track coach and the principal's son, has his golden eyes set on Keisha Montgomery. He can discuss everything from art to world events, he's traveled the world, and he owns a Jeep, a condo, and a jazz CD collection. He's a 'lemon drop wrapped in licorice': tall, dark, handsome, and as smooth as his silk shirts and leather jacket.

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