Keeping You a Secret is a young adult novel by Julie Anne Peters. It was first published in hardback in 2003, and later in paperback in 2005. This novel deals with mature themes. It is about a young girl (Holland, aged 17) discovering her sexuality and what it is like to experience homophobia. What starts out as a confusing "girl crush" becomes a discovery of Holland's true feelings and coping with the concept of attraction to a member of her own sex. Other characters in the novel discover her crush and employ various means of physical and emotional abuse and violence, displaying strong homophobic behaviors. See also Lesbian teen fiction References 2003 American novels American LGBT novels American young adult novels Novels with lesbian themes 2000s LGBT novels Lesbian teen fiction Little, Brown and Company books LGBT-related young adult novels 2003 LGBT-related literary works