Impossible by Nancy Werlin

I loved Impossible by Nancy Werlin! It is part fairy tale, part romance, part adventure--what's not to love?!

Lucy's mother is crazy. She went crazy after having Lucy at age 18. Lucy has lived with her foster parents and has a normal perfect life until her mother returns. Lucy's mother lives as a bag lady and follows Lucy around singing the Simon and Garfunkel song "Scarborough Fair." You know the song, "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme..." However, her mother has a slightly different twist on the lyrics to the song.

Since her mother has returned, Lucy knows that something is going to happen and it does. Lucy's prom night is a disaster complete with a rape, a death, and a pregnancy. And suddenly, Lucy is like her mother, going to have a baby at 18. But Lucy discovers that something is really strange. Not only did her mother have a daughter at 18, but her grandmother did and so did her great-grandmother and so did her great-great-grandmother, and after the baby was born, they all went crazy. With the help of the boy-next-door Zach, Lucy finds a letter from her mother and discovers that the women in her family are cursed and the song is the key to breaking the curse. Zach, her foster parents, and Lucy must work hard to complete the tasks and break the curse before the baby is born and Lucy slips into madness.