Denali Summer

Accepting a promise ring doesn’t feel like freedom.

But there it is, in front of Dawn's face on the eve of high school graduation. While Dawn freaks out on the inside, she goes through the motions on the outside. She and Chris have been together almost three years. Her family--Mama, Daddy and all five of her brothers and sisters--expect them to be together forever, and Dawn’s never gone against expectations.

Mama picked her college, and her boyfriend’s picking her life, so Dawn concocts a pla...