Download e-book for iPad: Burned by Ellen Hopkins

I do be aware of issues quite started to spin uncontrolled after my first intercourse dream.

it began with a dream. not anything unprecedented, only a regular delusion a few boy, the type of dream that almost all youngster women adventure. yet Pattyn Von Stratten isn't really like so much youngster ladies. Raised in a spiritual -- but abusive -- family members, an easy dream is probably not precisely a sin, however it may be the first step towards hell and everlasting damnation.

This dream is a primary step for Pattyn. yet is it to hell or to a greater existence? For the 1st time Pattyn starts off asking questions. Questions possible with out solutions -- approximately God, a woman's position, intercourse, love -- often love. what's it? the place is it? Will she ever event it? Is she deserving of it?

it really is with a true boy that Pattyn will get into genuine hassle. After Pattyn's father catches her in a compromising place, occasions spiral uncontrolled till Pattyn finally ends up suspended from institution and despatched to reside with an aunt she does not be aware of.

Pattyn is meant to discover salvation and redemption in the course of her exile to the wilds of rural Nevada. but what she unearths as an alternative is love and recognition. And for the 1st time she feels useful of either -- until eventually she realizes her outdated demons won't allow her cross. Pattyn starts down a course that would lead her to a hell -- a hell that won't be the only she realized approximately in sacrament conferences, however it is hell the entire similar.

during this riveting and masterful novel advised in verse, Ellen Hopkins takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster experience. From the highs of real love to the lows of abuse, Pattyn's tale could have readers engrossed till the final word.