A Test of Loyalty (Mechanicsville, #1)

I highly recommend you have your teens read A Test of Loyalty by Laurie Stewart." Gale S.
Isolation... you can feel alone in the most crowded places.
Change... it's the only thing you can count on.
Loyalty.... who deserves yours?
Told in first person, this is the story of three teenagers growing up in Mechanicsville, a bad neighbourhood in Canada's capital.
Surrounded by drugs, sexual assault, poverty, and peer pressure. Separated by race, religion, and distrust, they must learn to trust each other. When the unthinkable happens, what changes can they survive?
Ages 14+, this is a gritty look at Ottawa's youth. Book 1 in a series of novellas.
Warning: sexual situations, strong language, drug use

If you enjoyed this story, please check out other stories by Laurie Stewart.
Shifting Shards- Eighth Ripple Press; On This Day We Maen be Seen, an urban fantasy novella
30 at 30- Ottawa Independent Writers 30th Anniversary anthology; The Soul Eggs, a fairy-tale horror short
Steamy Cogs- Eighth Ripple Press, La Contessa; a Steampunk romantic mystery
Soon to be released:
A Ring of Earth, a Terreagles Novel
Nets to Catch the Wind, a Terreagles Novel
A Scream in the Night, a Bean Sidhe novel
Or follow her on Facebook at Laurie Stewart; writer, filmmaker, painter
You can also check out her authors page at Smashwords