Down to the Roots — Shannon Muir

More family secrets for the Harrisons are unveiled as Angie ends up living at the Daniels and a supposed brother appears in town. A freshman English project about family turns up skeletons in the closet for many. Angie learns new things about her own past that open her up to a forbidden relationship followed by consequences and choices. Angie and Belinda Harrison won the struggle to remain a family despite Belinda's poor choices. However, a lover from their mother's past whom they met in EVERYTHING CHANGES returns to Willowbrook with the son he sought â€" only to have learned that the man is not his child! When it appears that this man may in fact be the biological child of Arthur and Nora Harrison despite all odds, Angie and Belinda find their futures once again threatened by an apparent rightful heir to everything determined to have everything he's been denied â€" and in the process more secrets are unveiled about the night Angie and Belinda's parents died. Lyeesha also returns with the person interested in the Wallingford family home. Belinda, knowing she can't fight wars on too many fronts, arranges for Angie to live temporarily with Cherie's family, which is in itself added culture shock for the young woman just entering high school â€" especially when the Daniels are preparing to sell the house they are in and move to a house that Patrick has decided to build on his father's property, which comes as a surprise to the rest of his family. Additionally, when doing a freshman genealogy assignment, both Riki Williams and Cherie Daniels discover elements that show them they have more in common than they think â€" and that teacher Esther Rawlins' family lineage may itself be in question. Most shocking of all, Angie learns new things about her own past that open her up to a forbidden relationship followed by consequences and choices. This is the second book in THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.