High school junior Brooke Winter is excited to start school in the fall. She will be attending a more academically rigorous school which will help her get into a good college. Her dysfunctional family will be left behind as she moves forward toward a bright future or so she thought. On a hot summer day her mother is arrested for killing her father and nothing will be the same again. Now her mother is jail, her young sister won't speak to her, and her brother is having trouble coping. With her family falling apart, Brooke must find a way to face the truth of the situation. Will she find her place in the world and let go of the past? Or will the past hold on to Brooke? The Last to Let Go is a honest, painful story of a family in crisis.