Trouble Maker: A MacKenzie Family Novel (The MacKenzie Family) - Plot & Excerpts
Marnie had learned through the years to keep her mouth shut and stay out of Harley Whitlock’s way. The older she got, the further apart the beatings came. Mostly because she tried hard to stay out of the little clapboard house with the leaking roof and sagging porch, and at sixteen, she’d gotten very good at avoiding him. She spent most of her afternoons and weekends at Darcy MacKenzie’s house. They’d been thick as thieves since they’d been seated next to each other in Mrs. Green’s kindergarten class. It was much easier to pretend she belonged to them—to a family that loved her unconditionally and didn’t discipline with a leather strap and the smell of Jim Beam on their breath. To pretend the pretty blue-and-white room with the princess bed, and the closet full of clothes Darcy let her borrow so she wouldn’t have to wear the same three shirts week after week, belonged to her. Her daddy spent most of his days and nights down at Duffey’s playing poker and drinking in the back room until Duffey tossed him and his buddies out.
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