daissydarling
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Fifteen-year-old Ainsley Myers has spent most of her life learning how to stay quiet.
While her older twin sister, Allison, was praised for being bold and outspoken, Ainsley learned that silence was safer. Their mother's cruelty always seemed to find her more easily, and the fear that shaped her childhood taught her how to disappear, to take up as little space as possible, to speak only when spoken to, and to trust no one except the one person who never failed her: Allison.
When their foster dad is arrested, the girls are taken to a police station and given a truth that turns their lives inside out. They weren't abandoned. They were stolen. Somewhere beyond the life they've known is a father who never stopped searching, brothers who grew up believing they'd come home, and a family ready to welcome them without hesitation.
For Allison, the change feels like a chance to finally breathe.
For Ainsley, it feels like danger.
Because love is unfamiliar. Safety feels temporary. And a house filled with strangers, no matter how kind, triggers every instinct she's ever learned. As Allison begins to settle into this new world, Ainsley clings to the only certainty she's ever had: her sister. But the closer they get to belonging, the more Ainsley fears what will happen if Allison no longer needs her the same way.
As Ainsley navigates a life shaped by patience instead of punishment, she must confront a question she's never allowed herself to ask:
How do you learn to accept love when surviving meant believing you were never meant to be loved at all?