The Pact by Jodi Picoult

This was the first book I read by Jodi Picoult, and I was hooked. What a great story.

The book is about two families who live next door to each other. They each have one child. One has a son, and one has a daughter. They raise the children together, and they dream of the day when their children will fall in love and get married to each other.

As teenagers, the children begin to date each other, and one night the girl dies. The whole story is really whether the girl died of suicide (as part of a suicide pact with the boy) or whether the boy killed her.

What happens to these two families is tragic. The story is told from the point of view of each of the characters in the book, so you can really see how each person feels and what they're thinking. It's very well written and a fantastic story. I highly recommend this book.