Bitter Blessings

When her mother dies in a highway accident, seventeen-year-old Megan is left caring for her two sisters and eccentric grandmother in Tucson. As she untangles insurance troubles, she discovers a shocking truth: her family's identities are fake, and the father she thought was dead is alive—kept away because her mother fled when he joined the LDS Church. Guided by her best friend Adam's quiet faith, Megan must confront painful choices, forgiveness, and trust in God to find her way to an unexpected, hard-won new life.

• A daughter learns her whole identity is a lie—and the father she buried is alive.
• A gripping page-turner about family secrets, grief, and finding God when your world falls apart.
• Explores what a Latter-day Saint 'looks like' through the eyes of a girl taught to fear Mormons.
• A story of forgiveness and 'hard blessings' perfect for youth navigating loss and faith.

“I may have never told you what my church was called, but I've never once tried to make you think I was something I wasn't. I've done my very best to live my religion, to show you what a Mormon was, even if you didn't know what you were seeing.”

Perfect for a teen or adult LDS reader who enjoys emotionally charged contemporary fiction about family secrets, grief, and discovering faith through unexpected circumstances.