Willa Easton becomes the punishment her parents use to keep her younger brother in line. To them, their precious son means everything, while she is nothing more than a female animal. They send her to a correctional center at fifteen solely to frighten Jude into obedience. When Jude later gets into an Ivy League school, they proudly declare their method a success. But after her father punishes the traumatized and emotionally numb Willa once again, the truth about her three years of imprisonment and abuse is finally exposed—destroying the family that sacrificed her.
