Broken / Lyons, CJ

When Scarlet finds out she has a terminal heart condition, she requests to be able to attend high school to discover what it is like to have a normal life. As she adjusts to the norms of her new school, however, she realizes there is a shocking secret waiting to be unearthed, and learning more about it may prove more fatal than her heart.

Attending high school for the first time, chronically ill Scarlet, with the help of her new friends, faces down bullies, endures her school-nurse mother's smothering overprotectiveness, and eventually discovers the truth behind her illness--a truth that puts much more than her life at risk.