The Oak Tree

by Julie Judish

Joanna Becker has no idea what is in store for her upon the day of her eighteenth birthday. She has no way of knowing that instead of celebrating her big day that she will be mourning the death of her mother, or that she is about to become the head of a financial conglomerate. She also doesn't know that someone wants her dead. Raised by a single mother, Joanna Becker has lived a quiet and meager existence in small town America. But that is all about to change. Just days before her...