All she has

Nessa Chen is seventeen years old, working twelve dollars an hour at the Gary library, and watching her mother die. Stage three pancreatic cancer doesn't care that they have no money. It doesn't care that Nessa is still in high school. It doesn't care about anything except spreading.
A medical grant could save her mother's life. Fifty thousand dollars. All she has to do is apply.
But the foundation offering hope has secrets. Dark ones. And as Nessa fights to save the only family she has left, she discovers that some organizations don't give money away for free. They take payment in other ways. In Gary, Indiana, nothing is ever what it seems