![]() Jase Garrett sees her from his house and joins her. Samantha becomes annoyed when Clay acts condescendingly toward her, so she climbs through her bedroom window to her private spot, the roof. The man is Clay Tucker, her mother’s new political adviser and boyfriend. ![]() While home alone one night, Samantha hears sounds outside and opens the front door to find her mother and a younger man kissing passionately. ![]() The Garretts have eight children: Joel, Alice, Jase, Andy (Andrea), Duff, Harry, George and Patsy. Grace is now a state senator campaigning for a second term, and Tracy is waitressing on Martha’s Vineyard before she leaves for college. She doesn’t need to work since her family’s wealth comes from Grace’s trust fund, but Grace likes her daughters to have full schedules. ![]() Ten years later, Samantha is 17 and plans to get a job during the summer before her senior year of high school. ![]() Samantha is forbidden from playing with the Garrett kids, but she watches the family from her window and feels she knows them even though they never meet. Samantha’s mother, Grace, tells Samantha and her sister, Tracy, that the family with the messy yard will bring down property values. When the Garretts move into the house beside Samantha Reed’s, Samantha is fascinated by the family of seven’s hectic lifestyle, which is so different from her scheduled and carefully planned single-parent home. ![]()
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