"Burned" Book Summary

"Burned" is about a girl named Pattyn, who is living in a religous, yet abusive home. Pattyn's "misbehaving" as her father would call it, all started with a simple dream. It was just a typical fantasy dream about a boy, but Pattyn doesn't know if this is aloud considering she's a Mormon, and she thinks what she is dreaming is wrong. Having this dream may not be a sin, but to her family it is one more step to Hell, and means Pattyn is no longer the good girl.
This turns into more then a dream when she starts experimenting with a real boy named Derek, but her father catches her with him. Her father is enraged at her, and doesn't want to deal with her sinning ways, when he has a family of six young girls to deal with, and a son on the way. Pattyn ends up getting suspended, and sent to live with her Aunt that she barely knows.
Pattyn and her Aunt become very close, and are able to confide in each other about things going on in there lives and things that have happened in the past, but she feels bad she left her sisters with her father. She fears he might beat them instead of her mother, sense she's pregnant with the son he's always wanted.
It turns out that she has fun during her stay with her aunt, and she learns how to drive and ride a horse, and meets the love of her life. She falls in love with Ethan, the son of her aunts friend. He is not Mormon and her father would kill the both of them if they were together but Pattyn doesn't care and starts to quesiton if she believes in her familys religious views and the way the act.
When she returns home to go to school things start to go bad again. She mouths off to her father and gets beaten. She also takes the rap for something her sister does, and gets the horrible punishment her father gives her in order to save her sisters life. On top of all the problems she's having at home, she also learns that she will have Ethan’s baby and is concerned for herself and the her future child if her family were to find out. She plans to runaway with Ethan so they can get married and be happy together.
Ethan and Pattyn get in a car wreck on an attempt to escape from her home and she wakes up in the hospital to learn that she lost Ethan and her baby. Pattyn feels like she has nothing to live for and no one to love, and in the end of the book, she hints ending her life, because everything she wanted has been taken from her.