The Perfect Place — Teresa E. Harris

Treasure's father has been gone for two months. He's done it before -- set out to find a better home for the family, leaving Treasure, her mother, and her younger sister, Tiffany. behind. But Dad has never taken this long to send word, and Mom is tired of waiting.

Mom abandons the girls with her aunt Grace, who lives in small-town, rundown Black Lake, Virginia. Great-Aunt Grace smokes. She can't cook. She doesn't even own a TV. Treasure is certain that the weeks she'll be stuck there will be the most miserable of her life. But she also knows she'll eventually end up in the perfect place, the home her father is seeking, with her real family: just Mom, Dad, Treasure, and Tiffany.

So it comes as a surprise when Black Lake and Great-Aunt Grace begin to challenge Treasure's expectations. Turns out, first impressions can be misleading. Hardness can conceal tenderness And sometimes finding home means letting go.