This book is about a 14-15 year old freshman named Keira Millen. There are no demons, or dragons, or medieval battles or anything like that, it's just the story of Keira's life. Well, her freshman year anyway. It's Keira's first year at a new school, without her old friends, and she's freaked out. She's got nobody to talk to, so she begins to write to her old friend Sam. It seems like no big deal, just a few harmless letters to a friend, but Keira isn't sending them. They stay in a pile in her messy room. Why is that? She doesn't want Sam to read them. Why is that? Well, it's for the same reason that Keira is starting a new school this year.
Dear Sam is the story of this troubled teen, how she makes new friends, and how she overcomes the demons of her past that haunt her. I guess there are demons in this story then!
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.