Growing up without a mother is hard. Worse is having a stepmother who controls Dad. Brittany Myerson is so ready for high school to end. She knows that life is going to get a whole lot better when she gets her driver s license, the car she s always wanted and a ticket to college away from home. But her new stepmother has decided what s good enough for Brittany: a beat-up, mustard-colored piece of junk and enrollment in the local community college. Brittany thinks it can t get much worse until she learns that her father has changed his will leaving everything to Lynn. Suddenly, Brittany s father dies and the police suspect murder."