Stained by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Jocelyn (aka Joss) has two boys in her life.
* Gabe has shared fourteen years of growing up next door. He's a "golden boy, an all-star". Yet now, in the spring of 1975, he's missing, disappeared on the brink of senior year at Weaver High. The whole town is set to go searching for him.
* Benny has only been in New Hampshire since January, yet for Joss, he's the answer to a long held prayer to be someone in somebody's eyes. She loves them both.

The book is told from Joss's point of view both her past and her present. We see how she has evolved to the person she is in the present. Joss feels that her soul is stained because she never got her first communion. She loves Gabe who will never love her back. She is passionately involved with Benny who feels guilty for everything they do and makes her feel that she is the temptation leading him astray. The catholic church has a lot to play in the novel as we see Joss's journey for the truth but often the truth will not set you free. This is a painful but beautiful book to read as it ends with hope.

The ending quote from the book pretty much sums it up.
"I look down at myself, stained by color. No. Not stained. Celebrated. And it occurs to me that perhaps souls are like prisms. Prisms that allow us to see clearing into the soul of another and, at the same time, recognize our own glorious light."