Forbidden

"Annabel and Daniel meet at a high-society party, and are instantly drawn to each other by a love so strong it threatens to overwhelm them. Annabel knows that she loves Daniel more than any man she's ever met, but she also knows that their families are linked by a dark and violent secret. A secret so terrible it makes their love ... forbidden."@en
"A secret that could destroy two legendary families threatens to change the course of true love in Caroline B. Cooney's mesmerizing novel. Annabel Jayquith and Daniel Ransom meet at a party. They fall instantly in love, unaware that their lives are inextricably bound together by the crime that shocked a nation. Daniel is the high-profile son of a slain US senator who had presidential ambitions. Annabel is the daughter of a billionaire businessman. Like Daniel, Annabel is haunted by the discovery of her family history'a past she never knew existed. Annabel is rich and beautiful, but eighteen-year-old Jade O'Keeffe is poor and alone. She hates her mother, the fabulously successful TV talk-show host Theodora Jayquith, for giving her up for adoption. But most of all, she hates Annabel, Theodora's spoiled, much-loved niece. And Jade is going to make them all pay. As Daniel's search for the truth about his father's unsolved murder puts him in the crosshairs of Jade's revenge, a killer slips from the shadows. Now a secret that could bury two powerful families could also destroy Annabel and Daniel's growing love."@en