Plot Summary

Marie Jones and Le Anne Dunley are sisters who leaned on each other throughout their life challenges. Marie is married and Le Anne is a single mother. Marie and husband Walter have a 17-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, who has a picture-perfect life with a seemingly equally-wonderful boyfriend named Mark. Le Anne raises her 16-year-old daughter Kelli and struggles to relate to the pressures Kelli is facing with boys, friends, and school. Then Mark and Elizabeth's relationship turns stormy: Mark dominates Elizabeth by calling her constantly and forbidding her to talk to other men. One night she is hospitalized but denies that Mark has put her there. Kelli gets suspicious about the bruises that Elizabeth has sustained. Elizabeth's parents try to intervene in the relationship but it doesn't do any good. Finally, when Elizabeth can no longer take the abuse, she decides to end the relationship, Days later she receives a violent text from him and files a restraining order against him: If Mark violates it, the school will contact the police and he'll be arrested. Can Elizabeth stand up for herself before it's too late?—Anonymous