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Innocent / Eric Walters.

ISBN: 9781459806658 (paperback) :
Physical Description: 258 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, 2015.
Copyright: &copy;2015.

Walters, Eric, 1957- (Author).

Summary:

Every family has a skeleton in the closet... In early June, 1964, the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls burns to the ground and its vulnerable residents are thrust out into the world. The orphans, who know no other home, find their lives changed in an instant. Arrangements are made for the youngest residents, but the seven oldest girls are sent on their way with little more than a clue or two to their past and the hope of learning about the families they have never known. On their own for the first time in their lives, they are about to experience the world in ways they never imagined. Bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong, Vicki Grant, Marthe Jocelyn, Kathy Kacer, Norah McClintock, Teresa Toten and Eric Walters team up to create this series of linked YA novels. Readers can discover all seven Secrets in any order.

Betty doesn't think of herself as brave or creative or imaginative like the other girls at the orphanage she grew up in. However, she is hardworking and kind, which helps her adjust to her new life as a maid in the home of the wealthy Remington family. But Betty's natural optimism and goodness are tested when she learns that her father is serving a life sentence for murder.