Everything Changes — Shannon Muir

Angie and Belinda Harrison unexpectedly lose both their parents on the night they celebrate Belinda's graduation from college. While they always knew their family had secrets, more become apparent when associates of their mother appear exposing them to things about her they never knew. Belinda, now Angie's guardian, makes difficult and unpopular choices to keep them together - while Angie tries amidst the chaos to find support in her friends Bill and Rhonda, and meets a newcomer to the eighth grade named Cherie Daniels who will become an unexpected friend in troubled times. Willowbrook is a town where a past of agriculture and pioneer medicine collide with a town moving forward in state of the art commerce and healthcare. With the changing times have come changing ideas that lay hidden in the dark for many years which these two families will begin to bring to light. This is the first book in the Willowbrook Saga, which will follow Angie Harrison and Cherie Daniels from eighth grade through adulthood, and the things they face together. The series explores women trying to build their own identities against a town's expectations.