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MY BEAUTIFUL RUIN
She ran from her past. She never expected it to follow her.
At fourteen, Ana has already learned that the people you trust the most can become the ones who hurt you the deepest.
After witnessing the devastating destruction of her family, Ana runs away, leaving behind everything she once called home. With nowhere to turn, she teaches herself how to survive, determined to build a new life far away from the memories that haunt her.
But starting over isn't as easy as she imagined.
A new school should have been her escape. Instead, it becomes another place where she struggles to belong. Whispers follow her through the hallways. People judge what they don't understand. And every attempt to move forward is interrupted by memories of the night her father killed her mother-and the painful reason she had to run.
The only person who seems to understand her is her best friend, the one person Ana believes she can trust with everything.
Until she discovers that the person she thought was her safe place may have been hiding the darkest secret of all.
Then she meets a boy who sees beyond the walls she's built around herself.
For the first time, Ana begins to wonder if trusting someone again might be possible.
But when the past starts closing in, she must choose between protecting her broken heart and facing the truth she's spent years running from.
Because sometimes, the things that destroy us become the very things that shape us.
And Ana is about to discover that her beautiful ruin has only just begun.