Topping the Willow

Stranded in paradise ... with a guilty conscience

One million things about fifteen-year-old Brittany Warner infuriate her mother-and vice versa. Britt wants to bask in the Hawaiian sun this summer as planned, not build her Ivy League resume at a lake cottage in Vermont. But her case against her power-attorney mother doesn't stand a chance. She's sentenced to an ordeal intended to set the course for the rest of her life.

Until she rebels, and her mother ends up in a coma.

Through a chance encou...