Danielle Burnette

The Spanish Club Danielle Burnette

Seventeen-year-old best friends Brianna Garrett and Dana Tate have spent their St. Francis High years contentedly on the outside, watching their classmates lives go by. But when Brianna confides an unsettling secret to her best friend, her shattered world takes yet another blow. Dana will move away at the end of the summer, leaving Brianna to face her senior year friendless and alone. A last chance to bond with Dana lies in a summer trip with the Spanish Club, the only school organization the girls ever bothered joining. But the promise of a once-unattainable first love, another painful secret, and Mexico-gripped in World Cup fever-threaten to rip the girls apart for good. When her life and Dana's hang in the balance, Brianna must find the strength and forgiveness to reconcile the friend she once was with the new person she desperately wants to be. An honest coming-of-age, THE SPANISH CLUB chronicles the universal struggle to define oneself within the boundaries of friendship and love-even when the ones you trust break the rules.