currissataylor1993
Fifteen-year-old Tala never asked for her life to change. She was perfectly content under open skies, surrounded by Powhatan traditions and her mother's steady love. But when her mom decides it's time for Tala to connect with the other half of her heritage, she's sent to live with her estranged father, Andrew Walker, a white man she barely remembers.
What she expects: awkward silence, guilt, and distance.
What she gets: a house bursting at the seams with step-siblings, school mornings, kitchen chaos, and a father whose love is quiet but solid.
And then there's Eli-soft-spoken, thoughtful, and a little bit lost like her. He doesn't ask Wiyan to be anyone but herself. As friendship blooms into something deeper, Tala finds herself torn between the world she came from and the one that's opening up around her.
Balancing two cultures, a new family, and the spark of first love, Tala must find out who she is, not just the daughter of two different worlds, but someone all her own.