

The novel opens two weeks into their trip with Charlene upset over their room at the Hostel Bertolini. Not wishing Lucy to travel alone, her parents agreed to pay for both Lucy and Charlene's airline tickets and Eurail passes. So as to entice her to study something reasonable at college, Lucy's father has bribed her.

Or one of those kids in the Gifted program." "All my life he's wanted me to be things I"m not. Lucy is not good at math and money but she's used to her father pushing his way on her. She's a born actress having landed the leads in almost every school play and summer stage production and dreaming of a career as an actress. Lucy's father paid for their flights in exchange for Lucy enrolling at Forsythe University to study business. Seventeen year old Lucy Sommersworth and her best friend Charlene Barr are backpacking their way through Europe, in the vacation of a lifetime. April Lindner has written a story about a young girl coming of age as she experiences her first love and struggles to make her own decisions about life.
