Because Of You.
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Last published Thu, Jan 30, 2014
After the loss of her father Cecilia is forced to go live with her mother, who's been m.i.a. since she was nine years old. Her plan is to just lay low and get past the next two years completely unnoticed.Attention could only lead them back to her. She wanted to be a normal sixteen year old girl. Let life pass her by and stay a shadow, an in the background kind of girl in school. She isn't looking for new friends, a new boyfriend and especially no drama. But with her luck, of course nothing was going to according to plan.
So what happens when she discovers a secret about herself that she never thought possible? then add a boy, a new group of mysterious friends and a dark past coming back to haunt her.
A dark past she didn't even know about, until now.
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