The Secret Heart
When
Chase learns that Penny has dropped out of high school and has been
spending her days in her room playing her piano, he knows that she is
still brooding over the death of their father. Lee, Penny's stepmother
discusses her problem with Penny's psychiatrist. Lee meets Chris Matthews,
a close friend of Larry, and after five days at sea, the two begin a
romance.
The affair ends, however, when Lee tells Chris that she is sailing to
America to marry Larry. After the wedding, Lee spends the next year
trying to fight Larry's alcoholism and working to win Penny's confidence.
She later moves the family to New York and gets a job in real estate,
hoping to make enough money to repay the investors that Larry had fleeced.
Penny reluctantly agrees to go to Rhode Island with Lee and Chase. One
evening, Lee discovers that Penny has developed an obsessive love for
Chris and fled into the night when she saw Lee and Chris embrace. After
Lee tells Penny the complete story about her father's life, Penny returns
to
school, graduates and resumes her romance with Brandon.
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