Sam must decide who she can trust…and choosing the wrong person could have deadly consequences.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:38:01 Boxid IA1745723 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier A decades-old secret society is alive and active… and determined to force her out. I read the author’s bio and was not surprised to see that like Sam, she also. Hensley includes lots of authentic details in this vivid look of military academy life, and this story is action packed. When their petty threats turn to brutal hazing, bleeding into every corner of her life, she realizes they are not acting alone. Man, this is one absorbing story I was up late reading Rites of Passage, dying to know how things would work out for Sam. But dating is strictly forbidden and Sam won’t risk her future, or the dare, on something so petty…no matter how much she wants him.Īs Sam struggles to prove herself, she discovers that some of the boys don’t just want her gone-they will stop at nothing to drive her out. What she’s not expecting is her fiery attraction to her drill sergeant. Read 769 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. She’s even expecting the hostility she gets from some of the cadets who don’t think girls belong there. As a military brat, she can handle an obstacle course just as well as the boys. She’s expecting push-ups and long runs, rope climbing and mud-crawling. So Sam joins the first-ever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark Military Academy. And shes not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died. Sam comes from a thoroughly military family, her father a legendary colonel who has raised all his kids as though they were in boot camp. Hensley Release Date/Publisher: September 9th 2014 by Harper Teen Finished: November 2014 Pages: 416-hardcover-Library Synopsis from Goodreads: Sam McKenna’s never turned down a dare. And she’s not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died. 9, 2014 The absorbing story of the first girl to join a fictional military high school. This in no way affected my opinion of the book, or the content of my review. Source and Format: I received this book for free from the publisher via Edelweiss.

Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley