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Arielle
Eight-year-old Arielle Hanley learned to live quietly - to move without sound, to smile when it was expected, and to never, ever speak when the walls were thin. Her home is a museum of arguments, her mother's perfume masking something colder, and the memory of her brother Caleb still lingers like dust in the corners.
By thirteen, Arielle's world has shrunk to the size of a school hallway - full of whispers, bruises that don't show, and the strange comfort of a boy who shouldn't care but does.
As she grows, the lines between past and present begin to blur, and Arielle learns that pain doesn't disappear - it hides, waiting for the right silence to return.
A haunting coming-of-age story about loss, loneliness, and the fragile light that survives inside broken homes.
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(A character-driven drama for readers who loved It Ends With Us and Girl in Pieces.)