Kelsey grew up in a house of fences and locks. Her mother has locked herself inside her home hiding from the outside world for 17 years. Her mother was kidnapped when she was a teenager but managed to escape her captor pregnant with Kelsey. She is terrified that she is going to be taken again, so she has locked herself in her house and has not allowed Kelsey to do much other than go to school and come back home. Kelsey has always followed her mother's rules without question until one day when she sneaks out and comes back home to find her mother gone.
Lily and Dunkin is a coming of age novel that follows two main characters Lily and Dunkin. Lily has always known she was a girl but trapped in a boys body. She wants to stop hiding behind her boy clothes and finally be who she is, but middle school means bullies around every corner. Dunkin is starting a new life in Florida. He is struggling with his bipolar disorder and his newfound popularity. Dunkin has to ask himself is popularity worth loosing the only true friend he may ever have and his ?
